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===History of the Armenian Apostolic Church===
* According to religious tradition, the Apostles Thaddeus and [[Bartholomew ]] introduced Christianity to Armenia in the first century.
* Armenia would become the first country to adopt Christianity as a state religion, in AD 301, when St. Gregory the Illuminator, a missionary from Caesarea, converted the king of Armenia, Trdat IV, to Christianity.