The Nicene Age · AD 313–400
Gind
fl. c. AD 360s (death unrecorded) · Hermit · Leader of Armenian ascetics · Armenia
The Nicene Age
Who Gind was
An Armenian hermit named in the Epic Histories, presented as the head of a company of ascetics in the mountains. With Epiphanius he is the archive’s only witness to indigenous Armenian monasticism in the fourth century.
Named in the fifth-century Armenian sources only — late attestation for a fourth-century figure, on the same footing as Gregory, Trdat and Nerses in this archive.
Also listed in desert fathers & mothers.
Common questions
When was Gind active?
Gind is dated fl. c. AD 360s (death unrecorded) in the archive, which places Gind in the Nicene Age (AD 313–400). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.
Which early sources mention Gind?
Gind is named in 1 primary-source passage catalogued here, drawn from Pʼawstos Buzand. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.
Where was Gind from?
The archive associates Gind with Armenia.
Who were Gind’s contemporaries?
The archive links Gind to 2 other figures, including Epiphanius the Ascetic and Nerses I the Great. Each connection is drawn from a source that places them together, not from inference.
Primary-source mentions (1)
Every passage below is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.
Buzandaran Patmutʼiwnkʼ (The Epic Histories) passim — anonymous Armenian composition of the 470s
c. AD 475[Named as a leader among the Armenian hermits.]Pʼawstos Buzand · Epic Histories passim · source text
Connected in the archive
People
Named alongside Gind in the sources
This figure is placed with Gind by the record — in a council roll, a martyr-act, a letter or a history — without Gind naming them in return.
Events in this lifetime
- AD 301 · Hripsime and her company, AD 301
- AD 303 · The Great Persecution begins, AD 303
- AD 303 · The search of the church at Cirta, AD 303
- AD 306 · The Council of Elvira, AD 306
- AD 311 · Galerius’ edict of Serdica, AD 311
- AD 313 · The Edict of Milan, AD 313
- AD 314 · The Council of Arles, AD 314
- AD 320 · Silvanus tried before Zenophilus, AD 320
- AD 325 · The Council of Nicaea, AD 325
- AD 339 · The persecution of Shapur II, AD 339
- AD 343 · The Council of Serdica, AD 343
- AD 361 · Julian’s pagan restoration, AD 361
- AD 366 · Damasus and the catacomb epigrams, AD 366
- AD 367 · Athanasius lists the 27 NT books, AD 367
Place
Places served
The one place the sources put Gind.
- 1Armeniaprovince only