History of the Church of Caucasian Albania according to Movses Kalankatuatsi

Moses Kalankatuatsi’s work “The History of the Country of Albania,” the first and only work on the history of Caucasian Albania, is of pivotal importance for studying the history of this state during the period of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. This monograph by Doctor of Church History and Archimandrite Alexy (Nikonorov Andrey) is the first serious attempt to highlight the issues of Albanian church history based on this Albanian source in comparison with accounts by Caucasian, Persian, Syrian, Byzantine and Arabic historians. This work analyzes information contained in Moses Kalankatuatsi’s “The History of the Country of Albania” and associated with the life of the local Christian community.