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especially those living and working In Georgia or in
the Armeno-Georglan borderlands had come under the
influence of Chalcedonianism, These Armenian Chalcedon-
ians performed the Greek rite in the Armenian language.
The sources contain frequent allusions to rancor and
enmity between Armenian Monophysites and Armenian
Chalcedonians . The disputes occasionally took the form
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of land disputes between monasteries .
Second, Roman Catholicism began to have an impact
on Armenian religious affairs. In the 13th century, for
complicated reasons, the Cilician Armenian monarchy and
kat'otikosate and certain circles in Greater Armenia
began encouraging the idea of religious union with Rome5.
VA p. 143; Zak'are and Iwane attempted to forcibly
unite the Armenian Monophysite and the Georgian Chalcedonian
Churches,unsuccessfully (KG pp. 166-67: the
Annals of Bsihop Step'annos, MC vol. 1 p. 38). The
center of Georgian Chalcedonianism in northern Armenia
was the monastery of Plnjahank",on which see P.M. Huradyan,
"Vrac'eren arjanagrut'yunner Hayastanum; Plnjahank'C
Georgian Inscriptions in Armenia; finjahanS^J" Lraber
#1 (1973) pp. 39-57, as well as the same author's first
article, "Georgian Inscriptions in Armenia" describing
the inscriptions at Hnevank'. Sanahin, and Halbat,
Teiekagir #3 (1966) pp. 30-47.
KG p. 222.
G. Petrowicz, " MIabanot eibayrnera ew Hay eke^ee 'in
[The Dniators and the Armenian Church]1^ ^"(1969)" PP. 361-62.
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