Vardapet
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vardapet-171-10135774
title:
Vardapet
text:
A vardapet is a title given to highly educated hieromonks in the Armenian Apostolic Church. It has been variously translated as 'doctor', 'doctor-monk', 'archimandrite', or 'doctor of theology'. The term originated from vardbad, a Middle Persian term, while the Parthian variant, varžapet, is retained in Armenian for "teacher". James R. Russell argues that the Middle Persian form indicates that the Christian Armenian title was adopted on the model of a Sasanian Zoroastrian office. The term vardap
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vardapet
date created:
2008-04-12T20:14:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T08:54:58Z
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