Background
Eznik was born at Koghb (Tuzluca), in the historial province of Tayk, a tributary valley of the Chorokh, in Northern Greater Armenia.
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Eznik was born at Koghb (Tuzluca), in the historial province of Tayk, a tributary valley of the Chorokh, in Northern Greater Armenia.
He was a pupil of Isaac, the catholicos-patriarch Isaac the Great of Armenia or Isaac of Seleucia, and of Saint Mesrop. At their request he went first to Edessa, then to Constantinople to perfect himself in the various sciences and to collect or copy Syriac and Greek manuscripts of the Bible, and the writings of the Fathers of the Church. He returned to Armenia after the First Council of Ephesus (431).
He is probably identical with Eznik, Bishop of Bagrevand region, who took part in the Synod of Artashat in 449.
