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The Armenian Apostolic Church considers itself to be the oldest national church in the world (established in 301 CE), and with reason. Like Georgians, the Armenians say that Apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus were active in their land during the first century, urging people to become Christians. It has to be admitted that this fact hasn’t been documented anywhere, but certainly the church was active by the beginning of the fourth century. If we take a look at Europe at that time, it becomes immediately clear that in terms of Christian governance and the ‘modern’ world into which it later transformed, they were by far ahead of our Occidental culture.
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