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The ancient state of Osroene did it earlier

Regardless of the validity of the claim that Armenia became Christian in 301 AD, it isn't the first. Osroene - at the time a client state of the Roman Empire - formally adopted Christianity as the state religion under Abgar the Great in 201 AD.

Looking first to the eastward, we find that in Edessa, the capital of Osroene, the Church first ascended a throne.

--Samuel Cheetham, A History of the Christian Church During the First Six Centuries, page 58

This source is from 1905; there is another book from 1988 listed as a source on Wikipedia but Google Books doesn't have that page.

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