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General Church History

1. “General Church History”, its methods and structure

2. “History of the Armenian Church” within the framework of general church history

3. Formation of the first Christian communities and main trends in their development. The Apostolic Council of Jerusalem (51 AD)

4. Apostolic preaching in Armenia according to early conversion tradition

5. Persecutions of Christianity in the 2nd–4th centuries: legal justifications and main stages. Persecutions in Hayq

6. Christianity as a tolerated religion. The Edict of Milan

7. The spread of Christianity in Armenia and the struggle of paganism against it

8. Christianity becomes the state religion in Armenia. Organization of the Armenian Church as a unified structure. Gregory the Illuminator and King Trdat the Great

9. Nationalization of the Armenian Church. Sahak Partev

10. Invention of the alphabet and the opening of national schools in Armenia, Georgia, and Caucasian Albania. Mesrop Mashtots and the Translation Movement

11. Monastic movement

12. Arius and Arianism. The anti-Arian struggle

13. The First Ecumenical Council. The Creed, canonical decisions, and the Armenian Church’s attitude toward them

14. The Cappadocian theological school and Armenia

15. The Second Ecumenical Council. The doctrine of the Trinity, the Creed, canonical decisions, and the doctrine of the "New Rome"

16. The Third Ecumenical Council and its decisions. The conflict between Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius. The “Union” of Alexandria and Antioch (433 AD) and the Armenian Church

17. The Fourth Council of Chalcedon and the new doctrinal formula. Canon 28 of Chalcedon

18. The Cappadocian Fathers’ doctrine of the Trinity

19. Apologetic and polemical literature of the universal Church

20. Theology and exegesis (Alexandrian and Antiochian schools)

21. The triumph of Christianity in Armenia. St. Nerses the Great

22. The Armenian Church’s struggle against remnants of paganism. The Council of Ashtishat

23. The Armenian Church as the organizer of social life after the fall of the Arsacid dynasty

24. The Council of Shahapivan. Canonical decisions

25. The Armenian Church in the second half of the 5th century. Hovhan Mandakuni and Vahan Mamikonian

26. The Armenian Church’s position on the decisions of Chalcedon. Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Churches. Julianist and Severan currents

27. The spread and state adoption of Christianity in Georgia

28. The First and Second Councils of Dvin. The anti-Nestorian movement

29. Religious policy of Emperor Justinian I. The Edict on the “Three Chapters”

30. The Council of Constantinople in 553 AD

31. The Armenian Church and the second partition of Armenia

32. The Armenian-Georgian ecclesiastical schism

33. New attempts at union between the Armenian and Byzantine Churches. The Council of Karin (632 AD) and the doctrine of “unanimity”

34. The missionary work of the Armenian Church in the 5th–7th centuries

35. Armenian-Albanian church relations. The Council of Partav

36. The Armenian Church’s anti-heretical struggle in the 5th–8th centuries

37. Nationalization of the Armenian Church. Hovhan Odznetsi

38. The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem

39. The Armenian Church under Arab domination. Sahak III Dzoraporetsi and Yeghia of Arjesh

40. The Iconoclast and Iconophile movements in the 7th–8th centuries. The Seventh Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (787 AD) and the Armenian Church’s position

41. Apologetic and polemical literature of the Armenian Church

42. Armenian-Byzantine ecclesiastical relations in the 9th–10th centuries. The Council of Shirakavan (862 AD)

43. The Armenian Church during the restoration of Armenian statehood. Zachariah I Dzagetsi and George II Garnetsi

44. The Armenian Church during the Bagratid Kingdom (9th–11th centuries)

45. The situation of Papal Rome and the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the early 11th century. The Great Schism of 1054 and its canonical and doctrinal causes. The Filioque controversy

46. Canonical principles of the formation of Orthodox Churches. Independent (autocephalous) and autonomous Orthodox Churches. Orthodox doctrine and worship

47. The internal state of the Western Church in the 11th–13th centuries. The Cluniac reform movement. Pope Gregory VII. The Ottonian religious policy

48. The Armenian Church in the early 12th century and the anti-throne Catholicosate of Aghtamar. The Council of Karmir Vank (1114 AD) and the adoption of new regulations for the election of Catholicos

49. Unification movements in Cilician Armenia. Nerses of Lambron

50. Spiritual and social preconditions of the Crusades

51. The Council of Clermont. Causes and aims of the formation of Western spiritual-knightly orders

52. The Fourth Crusade and the establishment of the Latin Empire and Patriarchate. Unification policy

53. The spread and state adoption of Christianity in Russia. Establishment of the Russian Patriarchate

54. Church and monastic institutions in the 10th–14th centuries

55. The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople

56. The decrees and Creed of the Council of Trent. Papal censorship and the “Index of Forbidden Books”

57. The founding of the Armenian Catholic Mekhitarist Congregation and its scientific and cultural activities

58. The Armenian Church in the 1830s–1850s. Formation and activity of Armenian Catholic and Evangelical Churches

59. The Armenian Church’s national preservation activity in the first half of the 19th century. Nerses Ashtaraketsi. The "Polozhenie" (1836)

60. George IV of Constantinople and the founding of the Gevorgian Theological Seminary

61. The Armenian Church’s national role in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Khrimyan Hayrik

62. The June 12, 1903, law and the Armenian people’s struggle against Tsarism

63. Reformist initiatives in the Armenian Church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Maghakia Ormanian

64. The Armenian Church during the Armenian Genocide

65. The Armenian Church during the First Republic of Armenia. George V Surenyants

66. The Armenian Church in the first decades of Soviet rule. Khoren I Muradbekian

67. The Armenian Church in the 1940s–50s. The Great Repatriation. George VI Chorekchian and Karekin I Hovsepiants

68. The Armenian Church and the Armenian diaspora. Vazgen I Paljian

69. The Armenian Church and Catholicos Karekin I. Relations between the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and the Catholicosate of Cilicia

70. The RA Law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations” (June 17, 1991) and the Armenian Church

71. The historical fate of the Catholicosates of Aghtamar, Sis, and Gandzasar

72. The contemporary Christian world and the ecumenical movement

73. Liturgical books of the Church (e.g. Lectionary, Treasury, Book of Hours, Sacramentary, Calendar, Hymnal, Synaxarion, Ritual Book, etc.)

74. Bun Barekendan (Feast of the Fast of Lent)

75. Great Lent