History of Armenia, by Father Michael Chamich; from B. C. 2247 to ...

HISTORY OF ARMENIA. 333
teen years. He was succeeded by Moses the
Second, from the village of Eliward, in the province
of Aragazote, a man of profound knowledge
and eminent virtue. This individual, immediately
after his elevation to the pontificate, A. D. 551,
assembled a meeting of bishops and considerable
laymen in the city of Duin, where the Armenian
calendar was new modelled and corrected. The
Haican or Armenian era commences from this
period. The date of the era of the new calendar
is reckoned from the 552nd year of our Lord.
the foUowmg year, 553, the fifth
In
general assembly
was held at Constantinople, wherein the
opinions of Theodore of Mopsuesta were condenned,
on the words of a letter written by
Isaac the Parthian to Procl, by the consent and
advice of the Armenian fathers, assembled in
the third council of Ashtishat.*
Some individuals havin? endeavoured to
disseminate the heresies of Julianus Halicarnensis
in Armenia, Moses the pontiff caused them
immediately to be banished from the country.
number of Magi having come with Denshapuh
the prefect into Armenia, and together with him
having dreadfully persecuted the inhabitants, in
their attempts to convert them to the worship
of fire, the pontiff applied to the Persian king
for redress.
* See Hist. Book II, c. 59, and B. Ill, c. 41.
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