Abraham III of Armenia

Abraham of Crete had impressed many with his religious devotion during his stay there, and so they decided unanimously to elect him the new Catholicos.

Abraham III was old at this point and unfamiliar in the workings of Etchmiadzin, so he protested, but despite that in November 1734 he was named the 110th Catholicos of the Armenian Church.

Nader Shah of Persia was reconquesting areas which had been lost by his predecessors to the Ottomans including Armenia.

Abraham wrote that many villages had been left destitute by the Ottoman invasion and that the area was sufferingly greatly.

Abraham was invited as a guest of honor at Nader's coronation and Armenian princes were granted autonomy.