Asdvadzadur of Armenia was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 8 May 1715 to 1725. He was anointed in Etchmiadzin. As Catholicos, he secured an alliance with Peter the Great of Russia for aid against the expansionist Muslim powers of the Ottoman Empire and Persia prior to the Russo-Persian War.
He is buried at St. Hripsime Church, Echmiadzin.
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- "The Armenian Rebellion of the 1720s and the Threat of Genocidal Reprisal", Armen Ayvazyan
