GREGORY II VKAJASSER. - Armenian Katholikós (1065-1105). He is the first in the line of the Pahlaw family, which after six centuries restored the hereditary priesthood of the Parthew family of St. Gregory the Illuminator.

A journey of his is assumed, after 1074, to Rome with the intention of union with Pope Gregory VII, and to venerate the relics of the Apostles. The Pope alludes to this in a letter of 7 Dec. 1074; just as he also alludes to an embassy on the part of the katholikós in the letter of 6 June 1080 addressed to G. In it he proposes to him the acceptance of the Council of Chalcedon and the correction of certain errors.

This is, according to L. Alísa, the beginning of the pontifical correspondence with the Armenian Church.

During the long period of his patriarchate, G. reformed and updated the Armenian Martyrology, adding new saints of the Armenian and Greek Church; for this reason he was named Vkajasser, that is, Philomartyr.

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BIBL.: Manai, X, 149: XX, 311; L. Alísa, S. Nerses il Greco (o l'epoca (lo armeno), Venice 1873, pp. 22-35; Matthieu d'Edesse, Chronique, trans. by E. Dulaurier, Paris 1858, p. 239 ff.; Fr. Tournebize, Histoire politique et religieuse de l'Arménie, I, ibid. 1910, pp. 1663-7.

Garabed Amaduni

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Gregory II Vkajasser

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