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GREGORIO VI, APIRAT. — The last katholikos of the Armenian Pahlavouni family (1194–1203). Together with St. Nerses Lambronatzi and Leo II, the first king of Armenian Cilicia, he became the most steadfast champion of union.
After the death of Emperor Manuel Comnenus, negotiations with the Greeks were resumed under Isaac II Angelus (1185–1195) and then under Alexius III Angelus (1195–1203),
(photo: Vatican Library) GREGORIO D'AGRIGENTO, Saint — Miniature from the Menologion of Basil II (976–1025) — Vatican Library, Vat. gr. 1613, f. 203.at the Armenian Council of Tarsus (1196), of which St. Nerses Lambronatzi was the guiding spirit. When these negotiations failed owing to the Greeks’ lack of understanding, G. and St. Nerses, with rare foresight, strengthened ties with Rome. These were sealed by the coronation of Leo I as king by Innocent III at Tarsus on 6 January 1198, performed by Conrad of Wittelsbach; and by the subsequent Armenian embassy to Rome between the years 1199–1203. G. received the pallium, and the Armenian army obtained the crusaders’ indulgences.
BIBL.: G. Galanus, Conciliatio Ecclesiae Armenae cum Romana, I, Rome 1651, pp. 326 ff.; M. Ciamcian, Storia, III, Venice 1784, pp. 140–71; L. Alifan, Sissonan, ibid. 1899, pp. 218, 466–69; F. Tournebize, Histoire religieuse et politique de l'Arménie, I, Paris 1910, pp. 259–67; Regesta Innoc. III, I, II, Epist. 217–20; Mansi, XXII, pp. 197–206. Garabed Amaduni
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“GREGORIO VI, APIRAT.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 653. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/gregorio-vi-apirat.
