Nerses Bedros XIX. Tarmouni

Nerses Bedros XIX His Holiness. (Born 17 January 1940 in Cairo, Egypt ) is the reigning patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia.

Life

The patriarch came from a family of eight children, and received his education at the Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes in Cairo. From 1959 he studied as a member of the Pontifical Armenian College in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

On August 15, 1965 he was ordained a priest in Cairo. 1965-1968 he worked in Cairo, and from 1968 to 1990 in Heliopolis as a pastor. Pope John Paul II appointed him bishop of Alexandria, the Armenian Catholic Church. He received his episcopal consecration on 18 February 1990, the Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, John Bedros XVIII. Kasparian; Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops in Cilicia, André Bedoglouyan and Vartan Achkarian.

On October 7, 1999, he was elected Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians ( official title ) and on October 24, Nerses Bedros XIX 1999. enthroned. Pope John Paul II Rome him confirmed the ecclesial community on 13 December 1999. 2009 he was appointed Pope Benedict XVI. a member of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

Seat of the Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians is the monastery Bzommar in Beirut.