Church Aghbanie
The Church of Aghbanie was a church established in the Caucasus in the ancient kingdom of Aghbanie (Caucasian Albania), mainly on the present territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan. She was tied for most of its history to the Armenian Church , but also to the Church of Georgia. Its primacy, which bore the title of Catholicos of Aghbanie, acknowledged the primacy of honor of the Catholicos of all Armenians. The Church has disappeared in 1815 due to the power tsarist.
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The Aghbanie was Christianized from the Armenia to the fifth century. Church and state were closely linked and Catholicosate of autocephalous Aghbanie was introduced.
It seems that the church will be rather Aghbanie rallied to the Church of Georgia during the conflict over the definition of the dogma that led to the separation of the two courts and the integration of the Georgian Church from the Orthodox Churches Chalcedonian.
With the loss of political independence, the church finally Aghbanie s'armniser.
A renewed interest in the Church of Aghbanie occurs since the independence of Azerbaijan in Oudis. On 26 May 2003 a religious entity has been established and officially registered under the name Christian Community Oudine aghbanienne of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Organization
The Catholicosate of Aghbanie initially based in Shaki References
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