Catholicos Gevorg II of Garni was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 877 and 897. His contemporary Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi described him as a honorable man who was selected from the Catholicos's household by Prince Ashot I of Armenia to succeed Patriarch Zakaria. Gevorg anointed and crowned Ashot I when he was declared King of Armenia in 884. Upon King Ashot's death, Gevorg went to Bagaran to preside over his funeral. Ashot's heir Smbat I, who had been away at war, missed his father's funeral and was very grieved. Catholicos Gevorg went to comfort King Smbat at Yerazgavors, where he would later also preside at his coronation. This enraged the sparapet Abas who is said to have spread false rumors about the Catholicos in an attempt to bring him down. Abas tried to convince a holy man named Mashtots from Sevanavank to join his conspiracy against the Catholicos and said he would name him Catholicos if it was successful. Mashtots wrote a long letter in response, rejecting the offer to rebel against the Catholicos and chided Abas for his attempt. Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi reports at this point Abas was struck by an illness and died, as if by divine wrath, and the other conspirators repented to the Catholicos out of fear. Around this time Dvin was hit by an earthquake, as it had been during Patriarch Zakaria's time, but this time it destroyed the church of the Catholicosate, as well as many other buildings and people.