Sahak partev biography definition
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Commemoration of the Pontiff St. Sahak Partev
THE SUNDAY MESSENGER
February 19, 2017
Middle Sunday
Commemoration of the Pontiff St.
Sahak Partev
Pontiff St. Sahak Partev was the elder son of Catholicos St. Nersess the Great, and the last Catholicos of the Armenian Church who descended from the lineage of St. Gregory the Illuminator.
Sahak partev biography definition
He became Catholicos of All Armenians in 387 A.D., and reigned for an astounding 52 years. Being talented in music and educated in the rhetorical arts, philosophy and linguistics, St. Sahak greatly contributed to the development of Armenian national culture.
He was the strongest advocate for the creation of an Armenian Alphabet, and became its chief patron.
Following the creation of the Armenian Alphabet, St. Sahak and St. Mesrop opened a school for translators in the city of Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin).
There they begin the translation of the Holy Bible into Armenian and did it so perfectly, that centuries hence the Armenian Translation is c