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The Armenian Orthodox Church as a whole was established through the preaching of the Holy Apostles [[Apostle Jude|Thaddeus ]] and [[Apostle Bartholomew |Bartholomew]] in Armenia and the conversion of the Armenian nation in 301 thanks to the witness of St. [[Gregory the Enlightener|Gregory the Illuminator]]. St. Gregory became the first [[Catholicos]] of Echmiadzin and All the Armenians. Over the following centuries the Orthodox Faith became firmly implanted throughout Armenia, with the catholicoses leading the Church of Armenia from Holy Echmiadzin. As the Armenian capital shifted, however, so too did the seat of the catholicate, moving first in 483 to Dvin and then in the 900s to Dzoravank, Aghtamar, Arghina, and Ani.