Church of Caucasian Albania
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The Church of Albania or the Albanian Apostolic Church was an ancient, briefly autocephalous church established in the 5th century.[1][2] In 705, it fell under the religious jurisdiction of the Armenian Apostolic Church as the Catholicosate of Aghvank[3] centered in Caucasian Albania, a region spanning present-day northern Azerbaijan and southern Dagestan.[4]
In medieval times, the Gandzasar monastery served as the See of the Catholicosate of Aghvank of the Armenian Apostolic Church,[1][5] which continued to exist until 1828 (or 1836[6]) when it was formally abolished by the Russian authorities,[5] following the forced cession of the last territories in the Caucasus maintained under Iranian Qajar rule per the Treaty of Turkmenchay and the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828).