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proved a dissolute and unworthy ruler and Nerses forbade him entrance to the church. Other historians believe that Nerses tried to bring the young king under his control using his considerable influence and enlisting the help of some
Armenian princes, prompting Pap to dissolve the Patriarch's benevolent institutions and confiscate holdings belonging to the Church. According to Faustus of Byzantium and
327:, in 373 Pap invited Nerses to his table under the pretence of seeking reconciliation, then poisoned him. According to another theory, Nerses died of an illness of the lungs that he had contracted early in his life. Pap appointed Nerses's successor without the approval of Caesarea, which refused to recognize the bishop's authority.
291:) he promulgated numerous laws on marriage, fast days, and divine worship. Among other things, the council forbade people to marry their first cousin and forbade mutilation and other extreme actions in mourning. Nerses built schools, hospitals, leprosaria and poor houses and sent monks throughout the land to preach the
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in 369/370, Nerses returned to his see. Nerses undertook the reconstruction of
Armenian churches and monasteries that had been destroyed during the Persian occupation of Armenia and strove toward the elimination of Zoroastrian influence in the country. The classical Armenian historians write that Pap
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Nerses's relations with Arshak II, however, soon deteriorated. Some of the catholicos's reforms drew upon him the king's displeasure. Nerses also clashed with Arshak over the latter's extermination of certain
Armenian noble houses. Nerses made a visit to Constantinople to secure the release of royal
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period, so this is probably a title rather than her actual name. Since the time of
Gregory the Illuminator, Nerses's family had held the leadership of the Church in Armenia as their hereditary right, although this inheritance was temporarily interrupted when Nerses's father and uncle refused the
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In medieval
Armenia, a legend about a prophetic vision supposedly seen by Nerses in his dying moments gained widespread popularity and underwent several transformations over the centuries. Nerses's legendary vision is not mentioned by the main classical sources on Nerses's life, Faustus,
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Armenian history. Until that point, the Church had been more or less identified with the royal family and the nobles; Nerses brought it into closer connection with the people. At the
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366:), who will defeat the infidels and subject them to Roman authority, leading to the creation of a heavenly kingdom on Earth where peace, prosperity and justice will reign until the coming of the
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Armenia, although this poses certain chronological and genealogical difficulties, as Atanagines's father Husik is said to have married the daughter of the same king. Additionally,
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Khorenatsi, although Faustus and Parpetsi do write that Nerses's cursed the Arsacids, causing the fall of their kingdom. The legend first appears in a 10th-century
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of Nerses attributed to Mesrop Erets ('the Priest'), although the main version that has reached us was redacted sometime between 1099 and 1131, that is, soon after the first
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