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 362 HfSTORT OF ARMENIA.

pie. Varaztiroz only enjoyed his new dignity a year, when he died, and was buried in the city of Darons. A. D. 645 Some time about this period, several hereticsd era 94. books having found their way into Armenia, the pontiff held a meeting at Duin, where all here- tics and schismatics were anathematized ; and the meeting being of opinion that the council of Chalcedon had accepted the heresies of Theodoras of Mopsuesta, it was rejected by them, and twelve canons instituted for the better regulation of the church, Nierses having observed that the anthems in use had become exceedingly n^umerous, directed the monk Par- sick, surnamed Chon, to make selections of the most useful ; which being done, the book into which they were formed was designated by the title of Chonuntir or the selections of Cbou.

��CHAPTER XVIIL

The period between the prefectures of Sumbat and Nerseh, and between the pontificates ofAnastas and Isaac the Third.

^' Haull.' ^N t^ death of Varaztiroz, his son Sumbat was appointed by the emperor governor of Ar- menia. After the country had recovered a little tranquillity from the distress into which it kad

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