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People: Abd al-Malik ibn Katan al-Fihri
Location: Angers Pays de la Loire France

Armenian monarch Tiridates III, who owes his …

Years: 301 - 301

Armenian monarch Tiridates III, who owes his throne to the Roman Empire, adopts Christianity in 301 as his nation’s official religion, making Armenia the first Christian state.

The king appoints Gregory the Illuminator, who had been the instrument of his conversion, as the first Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church.