Harutyun Veapetyan ( Armenian Հարություն Վեհապետյան ; 1819 , Egypt - October 18, 1910 ) - Bishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem.
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| January 25, 1885 - June 1888 | ||
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Biography
At the age of 7 he remained an orphan [1] . Having shown great desire to study, he was sent to Jerusalem to receive primary education in the spiritual school of the monastery of St. Jacob [2] .
In order to improve, he went to Constantinople , and then went to Europe and America, where he intended to study various disciplines and, in particular, medicine, but, due to lack of necessary material resources, left his studies. By that time, in addition to Armenian, he knew Turkish, Arabic and English well [2] .
In the 1840s he continued his education at the Skutar seminary in Constantinople, studying armenistics , arithmetic , geography , etc. [2] .
On December 9, 1850, Bishop Stepanos (Aghavni) was ordained archimandrite at the Armash Monastery [2] .
In 1853, the Patriarch of Constantinople Hakobos appointed him his deputy [2] .
In 1857-1859 he headed the Armenian Diocese of Kharberd [2] .
In 1859 he led the diocese of Karin ( Erzurum ) [2] .
In 1860 he went to Etchmiadzin , where the Catholicos of All Armenians, Matteos I Chukhajyan, was ordained bishop [2] .
Returning to Karin , he began the construction and restoration of many educational institutions and churches, was engaged in charity work. In 1862, he restored the residence of the head of the diocese of Karin, the church of St. Gregory the Illuminator destroyed by an earthquake, the decrepit school of Karin with the money (13 thousand rubles) by philanthropist Hakob Makaryan. In 1865, thousands of Armenians who fled to Russia were persuaded to return to their native places [2] .
The consul general in Erzurum A. Dannet in 1883 gives him this characteristic: “Former Erzurum archbishop Arethune is distinguished by common sense and alien to the hobbies of dreamers of restoration of Armenian independence. Does not take advantage of the location of the Armenians of Constantinople and the patriarch of Nerses. In relations with us always differs in the spirit of goodwill. Lacking more scholarship, Arethune was always a skillful figure in practical life, keeping to the soil real and guided not by abstract theories, but by common sense; of all the candidates, he almost represents the highest guarantees for us if elected to the Catholicos ” [3] .
At the General National Meeting held on January 25, 1885, he was elected by the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople with 65 votes out of 87 deputies - he took up his duties on April 17 [2] .
On December 6, 1885, with 53 votes out of 57 deputies of the National Assembly, he was elected by the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem with the condition that these two titles were not combined [2] .
He remained at the post of Patriarch of Constantinople until June 1888, after which he headed the Jerusalem Patriarchate until the end of his life [2] .
He died on October 5 (18), 1910 [2] .
Notes
- ↑ National question in Armenian Church
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Garibdzhanyan Stepan. Figures of the Armenian Church (XIX-XX centuries). Biographical essays. Er., 2005
- ↑ Imperial Government And Election of the Catholicos of All Armenians