Grigoris of the Albanians

When did Grigoris die?

Grigoris of the Albanians is dated d. c. AD 330 (martyr) in the archive, which places Grigoris 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 Grigoris?

Grigoris of the Albanians is named in 1 primary-source passage catalogued here, drawn from P'awstos Buzand. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Grigoris from?

The archive associates Grigoris of the Albanians with Caucasian Albania.

Who were Grigoris’ contemporaries?

The archive links Grigoris of the Albanians to 2 other figures, including Vrtanes I of Armenia and Husik I of Armenia. Each connection is drawn from a source that places them together, not from inference.

[First attested ~140 years after the event. P'awstos relates that the young Grigoris, grandson of the Illuminator and bishop of Iberia and Albania, preached to the camp of the Mazkut king Sanesan; the nomad host, crying that he came to spoil their raiding, bound him to the tail of a wild horse and loosed it over the plain of Vatnean by the Caspian shore. The faithful bore his body to Amaras.]