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| description = Printer, priestclergyman, public figure, specialist of ciphers.
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=Biography=
*In 1562 departed for Rome for national-liberation business.
*In 1562 participated in a secret meeting in Sebastea.
*In Pope's order Abgar Tokhatetsi and Alexander priest compiled the Armenian creed.*In 1565 founded a printing house in Venice and published the calendar "Խառնայ փնթուր տումարի" (one Page) and the first Armenian "Psalms".*In 1567 Tokhatetsi moved the printing house to Constantinople and with the help of his son Sultanshah founded the first Armenian printing house in the church of Saint Nikoghayos.
==Other==
*Write other information Introduced himself to his contemproraries as the descendant of the House of Artzrouni.*The Catholicos Michael I Sebastatsi sent a delegation to Rome in questions connected to the liberation of Armenia, and the head of the delegation was Abgar Tokhatetsi.*In February 1565 he introduced the Armenian creed to the special commission. Here Abgar Tokhatetsi showed creedal devotion to Pope in political reasons and emphasized that doesnthere is little difference between the Armenian apostolic and the Catholic churches.*Abgar's note about Armenian't satisfy criteria s creed and national customs, written in order of Pope Pius IV, is preserved now.*Until 1880s "Psalms" was considered as the first Armenian printed book by mistake and Abgar Tokhatetsi as the first Armenian printer, but the study showed that Abgar Tokhatetsi started his printing having the example of the books of the above mentioned three subsectionsfirst Armenian printer [[Hakob Meghhapart]].
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