He was said to be beloved by his nation and many wanted him to be the Catholicos when Abraham III died, though another party supported Gregory the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem.
The governor there however detained him for a time until suddenly dying, an event blamed on divine wrath directed by Lazar.
Sometime after his return, Lazar had a rival monk Peter Kytheur persecuted and tortured, until he was finally able to leave for refuge in Karin.
Lazar had a group of supporters who agitated for his release, and around this time Ebrahim Afshar became the new shah of Persian.
Peter Kytheur was fettered and thrown in a dungeon where he would die of starvation after being Catholicos for ten months, though his name is not included on the Wikipedia official list.