Stories
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Bzommar, 1749.
Abraham Ardzivian, bishop of Aleppo, was elected patriarch by Catholic Armenian bishops in 1740 and confirmed by Benedict XIV in 1742; he had to leave Ottoman territory, and the patriarchal convent was founded at Bzommar in the Lebanese mountains in 1749. For most of a century the church existed mainly outside the empire whose Armenians it served.
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