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'''Aristaces''' or '''Aristakes''' '''I''' ({{langx|hy|[[wikt:Արիստակէս|Արիստակէս]] Ա|translit=Aristakēs}}) was the second [[Catholicos]] of the [[Armenian Apostolic Church|Armenian Church]] from 325 until his death in 333. He was the younger son and successor of [[Gregory the Illuminator]], the founder and first head of the Armenian Church and his wife, [[Julitta of Armenia|Julitta (or Mariam) of Armenia]].

Most of the information about Aristaces's life comes from the fifth-century Armenian history attributed to [[Agathangelos]]. Aristaces was born in [[Caesarea (Mazaca)|Caesarea]] of [[Cappadocia]] to Gregory the Illuminator and his wife Julitta (or Mariam) of Armenia.{{Sfn|Thomson|1976|pp=xxxi–xxxiii}} He is said to have entered a monastery with his mother as a child after his father left for Armenia. When Aristaces grew up, he went under the tutelage of a monk called Nicomachus, who sent him to live as an ascetic in the desert.{{Sfn|Thomson|1976|pp=xxxi–xxxiii}} Around 325, when Gregory wished to give up the Catholicosate in favor of a life as a hermit, King [[Tiridates III of Armenia|Tiridates III]] of Armenia sent for Aristaces and his brother [[St. Vrtanes I|Vrtanes]] and had them brought to Armenia to take over leadership of the Church.{{Sfn|Thomson|1976|p=lxx}}

In 325, Aristaces was sent as the Armenian representative to the [[First Council of Nicaea]] and brought back the Nicene canons; his signature appears among those of the bishops who participated in the council.{{Sfn|Thomson|1976|p=lxxii}} Aristaces is also said to have participated in an embassy together with Gregory and King Tiridates to the newly converted Roman emperor [[Constantine the Great]], although this is considered "purely legendary" by scholar [[Robert W. Thomson]].{{Sfn|Thomson|1976|pp=lxxiii}}

Agathangelos writes nothing about Aristaces's death. [[Faustus of Byzantium]] writes that Aristaces died "a confessor's death" but gives no further details, while Movses Khorenatsi claims that he was murdered in [[Sophene]] by a governor named Archilaeus in retaliation for being reprimanded by the Catholicos.{{Sfn|Garsoïan|1989|p=351}} According to Khorenatsi and Faustus, Aristaces was buried in the town of Til in the district of [[Acilisene]], although in a different chapter Faustus gives the alternative burial site of Tordan in the district of [[Daranali]], where Gregory is said to have been buried.{{Sfn|Garsoïan|1989|p=351}}{{Sfn|Thomson|1978|p=249}}

==See also==
* [[Gregorids]]

==References==
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==Sources==
* {{Cite book |last=Garsoïan |first=Nina G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSnXAAAAMAAJ |title=The Epic Histories Attributed to Pʻawstos Buzand (Buzandaran Patmutʻiwnkʻ) |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1989 |isbn=0-674-25865-7 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}
* {{cite book |last1=Thomson |first=Robert W. |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofarmenia0000agat |title=''Agathangelos'', History of the Armenians |publisher=SUNY |year=1976 |isbn=0-87395-323-1 |location=Albany |author1-link=Robert W. Thomson |translator-link=}}
* {{cite book |last1=Thomson |first=Robert W. |title=''Moses Khorenatsʻi'', History of the Armenians |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1978 |isbn=0-674-39571-9 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |author1-link=Robert W. Thomson |translator-link=}}

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St. Aristaces I - Revision history

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