(Reuters) -A court in Armenia sentenced a well-known archbishop to two years in prison on Friday after finding him guilty of calling for regime change in what his church has condemned as a politically motivated trial, Armenian site CivilNet reported.

The acrimonious confrontation, pitting the Armenian Apostolic Church against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his government, saw a number of prominent clerics arrested this summer on charges of attempts to incite violent coups.

Alongside Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan, who was sentenced on Friday, another noted cleric, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, who led street protests against Pashinyan last year, is also in pre-trial detention facing criminal charges.

Ajapahyan was arrested in June over an interview he gave the previous year in which he

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