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reinstated later, his move had also inflamed the
Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople resulting in the Patriarchate being usurped multiple times and leading to a division in the people. When Catholicos Nahabed died in 1705, there was still much confusion and turmoil amongst the people and so the pontificate stayed vacant for more than a year until Alexander of Julfa was called to the throne by general consent in 1706.
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as a result of deep divisions in the
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Catholic missionaries. In a letter in 1709 to Pope Clement, he compared the tolerant attitude of the Shah of Persia a "non-Christian" as compared to the Catholic missionaries who considered the Armenian Christians as "schismatics
86:(r. 1694–1722) that restricted the rights of the Catholic missionaries' rights with respect to the Armenian population living within the Safavid Empire. The first of these "anti-Catholic" decrees was issued in May 1710, while the second decree was issued in 1712.
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from 1699 to 1706. In Persia he had been known as a defender of the faith of the
Armenian Apostolic Church against the activities of the Catholic missionaries and in 1682 had published his book defending the traditional faiths of the church under the title
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in 1707 at the beginning of his reign, Catholicos
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