7 One or two? On Christological and Hierarchical Disputes and the Development of the “Church of Albania” (4 th –8 th centuries)

Abstract

In this Chapter I attempt to answer the crucial question regarding the existence of an independent historical Church of Albania and - at least sporadically - its own Christological orientation. This includes the question whether the “Catholicosate of Albania” represented a completely independent church, as is often claimed, or a strongly affiliated, but hierarchically relatively independent part of the Armenian Church. Possible answers can be found in the surviving texts of the Armenian but also the foreign traditions regarding the four ecumenical councils (Nicaea 325 - Chalcedon 451), and the Armenian anti-Nestorian and anti-Chalcedonian church councils of mainly the 5 th -7 th centuries up to the Council of Partaw (Barda) in 768.

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