An Indo-European people living in the Caucasus and in parts of eastern Anatolia In the course of the Middle Ages many migrated or were transferred to other regions of Anatolia and the Balkans They have their own church which, owing to an interpretation of how the human and divine were mixed in Christ which differs from that of the Orthodox Church, is considered heretical by the Byzantines
A religious sect so called from Armenia, where Christianity was introduced in the second century They attribute only one nature to Christ and hold that the Spirit proceeds from the Father only They enjoin the adoration of saints, have some peculiar ways of administering baptism and the Lord's Supper, but do not maintain the doctrine of purgatory