by Mahir Mahila-zadeh
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Bishops' names and the locations of the Albanian Church's monasteries/ churches (6th century).
Abas*, bishop of Partaw**, the See of the Albanian*** Chalcedonian**** Church (Pahlavi: Partaw; now Barda, Azerbaijan);
Moses, bishop of Balalat;
Grigor, bishop of Kapalak (now Qabala, Azerbaijan);
Hromak, bishop of Amaras (now Khojavend, Azerbaijan);
bishop of Arc'ax (Pahlavi: Arc'ax; now Karabakh, Azerbaijan);
bishop of Uti/k (now Šamkir (old: Šamkūr) and around Ganja city, Azerbaijan);
bishop, Kambisena (now in Georgia);
bishop of Čor (Pahlavi: Darband; now Derbent, Russia);
Simeon bishop of Mets Irank;
bishop of Vostan Imartspan;
bishop of Tsri/ Tri (around Ganja city, Azerbaijan);
bishop of Siwnik (Pahlavi: Sisakan, now Syunik, Armenia);
Timothy, bishop of Balasakan/ Paytakaran (Pahlavi: Balāsagān; now Beylagan, Azerbaijan);
Habakkuk, bishop of Šak‘ē (Pahlavi: Šakki; now Sheki, Azerbaijan);
Yohanik, bishop of Gardman (Phalavi: Šakašēn; now Qazakh/ Kedabek/ Gadabay, near the old fortress of Getabakk, Azerbaijan);
Lewond, bishop of Meckolmank/ Mec Kol-mank.
Albanian Church's monasteries in Jerusalem, around 638 AD*****
- Monastery of Pant, dedicated to St. John the Baptist (possibly named after bishop Pand, an early head of the Albanian Church);
- Monastery of St. Peter, the Forty Saints (the Forty Martyrs
of Sebastia?);
- Monastery of Mruva, named after the Forty Martyrs;
- Monastery of Mežay, named after the Forty Saints;
- Monastery
of Arc’ax;
- Monastery of Amaras, named after St. Gregory, first Catholicos of the Albanian Church and Gregory Illuminator's grandson;
- Monastery of Partaw, dedicated to St. Mary Mother
of God;
- Monastery named after the Holy Cathedral in the
city of Vagharshapat.
Notices:
*At the time, bishop Abas (in office 552-596) was Catholicos of the Albanian Apostolic Church. He successfully gained autocephaly for the Albanian Church.
** The original name was "great city" of Pērōz-Kavāt/Pērōzāpāt, i.e., “Prosperous Peroz” or "the city of Pērōz") . It was renamed to Partaw (now Barda from Arabic: برذعة, Bardhaʿa, present-day Azerbaijan ), possibly between 484-488 under the reign of Vachaghan [III] the Pious, holding the status of the capital city of Albania.
***Also called Church of Arran (Pahlavi: Arrān).
**** Followed the decision of the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) on the dyophysite nature of Christ.
***** The total number of the Albanian Church's monasteries in the Holy Land was 10.
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Kałankatuac̣i Moses, (Movsēs Daskhurantsʻi), “The History of the Caucasian Albanians”, Trans: Dowsett Ch., London, 1961, 252.
Terian Abraham, “Monastic Turmoil in Sixth-Century Jerusalem and the South Caucasus: The Letter of Patriarch John IV to Catholicos Abas of the Caucasian Albanians,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74, 2020, 9-39.
Archimandrite Alexy (Nikonorov), "Dioceses of the Albanian church by the sixth century", available at: https://ethnoglobus.az/343-dioceses-of-the-albanian-church-by-the-sixth-century.html
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