Armenian Apostolic Christians

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicoi of Armenia, Bartholomew the Apostle, Gregory the Illuminator, Sebouh Chouldjian, Jude the Apostle, Robert Kocharyan, Serzh Sargsyan, Komitas Vardapet, List of Catholicoi of Armenia, Tiridates III of Armenia, Karekin I, Mkrtich Khrimian, Hasmik Papian, Isaac of Armenia, Vazgen I, Gregory II the Martyrophile, Karekin II, George II of Armenia, Lazar I of Armenia, St. Nerses I, Parsegh of Cilicia, Abraham III of Armenia, Nerses V, Peter I of Armenia, Basil of Ani, Nahabed I of Armenia, Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi, Catholicos of All Armenians, St. Aristaces I, Nerses III the Builder, Sahak III, Mashdotz I, Ananias I of Armenia, Garabed II of Armenia, Yeghishe I, St. Husik, Asdvadzadur of Armenia, Khoren I, Gomidas, George VI of Armenia, Christopher II of Armenia, Khoren I of Armenia, Sarkis I of Armenia, Khachig I of Armenia, Seats of the Catholicos of Armenians, St. Vrtanes I, David I of Armenia, St. Husik I, Moses III of Armenia, Zacharias I of Armenia, Daniel I of Armenia, Dertad I, Pharen I of Armenia, Sarkis II the Relic-Carrier, Aspuraces I, Husik Santurjan, Zaven I. Excerpt: Bishop Sebouh Chouldjian (born Haik Sarkis Chouldjian, Armenian: , Turkish: , Russian: , also Sebuh, Sepouh, Sepuh, Chuljian, Tchuljian, Chuljyan, Çulciyan) is the Primate of the Diocese of Gougark of the Holy Armenian Apostolic Church. Bishop Sebouh was born on March 24, 1959 in Malatya, Turkey. He received his primary education at the Nersisian College of Istanbul. In 1969, his family repatriated to Armenia and settled in the city of Gyumri, where he continued and finished his primary education. In 1978 he entered the Gevorkian Theological Seminary at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1985, by the Grand Sacristan of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Archbishop Hoosik Santourian. He successfully defended his final thesis entitled "The Translation Works of Lukas of Kharpert" in March, 1986. Upon his graduation from the seminary he was appointed to serve in the Secretariat of the Pontifical Administration. He was ordained as a celibate priest by Archbishop Nerses Pozapalian on June 7, 1987, the Feast of Pentecost, and given the priestly name Sebouh. Following his ordination, he continued his service in the Pontifical Administration. By the appointment of Vazgen I, Catholicos of All Armenians, he served as the Vice Dean of the Gevorkian Theological Seminary at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin in September, 1987. In November, 1989, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "The Fast in the Armenian Apostolic Church," and received the rank of Archimandrite (Vardapet). In 1990, Vazgen I appointed Father Sebouh to serve as the spiritual pastor of the Armenians of Geneva, Switzerland. He returned to Armenia in 1991 to serve as the Vicar of the Diocese of Shirak. After the Republic of Armenia gained independence, vast administrative tasks were placed on the Armenian Church. In the summer of 1993, Father Sebouh worked closely with Archbishop Hovnan Derderian (the then primate of the Diocese of Canada) and Ronald Alepian t