20260811-SE-001: Start Year on Armenia, The First State To Adopt Christianity

Judgment

Disposition Revised

The entry correctly presents a genuine dating disagreement, but its claim of real modern scholarly support for 314 CE rests on this atlas's own general statement rather than on the source actually cited on this fact, so the citation gap is recorded and left for a future source rather than resolved by inventing one.

Armenia's adoption of Christianity is dated here to 301 CE, the traditional date, with a note acknowledging that proposals in the scholarship range from 284 to 314 CE and that 314 carries real modern scholarly support. The fact's own citation is Patriarch Malachia Ormanian's The Church of Armenia, the tradition's own authoritative account of its own history, written from the highest internal authority to state it. That source's own description states plainly that it is the tradition's self understanding rather than independent scholarly analysis, and that a claim about where independent scholarship differs from the tradition's own account needs a separate independent source. So while the underlying disagreement is real and the 301 date is correctly presented as traditional rather than settled, the specific claim that modern scholarship favors 314 is not currently backed by its own citation on this row. Correcting that properly means adding an independent source for the 314 CE dating specifically, not restating the same tradition source more carefully. No such source is yet in the atlas, and inventing one is refused. The disposition is revised in principle and the case is decided on that basis, but no data write is made until a genuine independent source can be added and reviewed.

Decided By an independent lane on August 11, 2026.