Andon Bedros IX. Hassunian

Andon Bedros IX. Cardinal Hassunian , also Anton Petrus IX. Cardinal Hassunian (born June 15, 1809 in Istanbul , † February 28, 1884 in Rome ), was the ninth Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia and the first cardinal of the Roman Church from the Armenian Catholic Church . With him, the seat of the Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia moved from Bzommar in Lebanon to Constantinople .

Life

Hassunian was appointed titular archbishop of Anazarbus (Cilicia) and coadjutor with the right of succession to the Armenian-Catholic archbishop-primate of Constantinople on June 7, 1842 and received Cardinal Fransoni , prefect of the Congregation for Evangelization through Giacomo Filipo on June 19, 1842 of the peoples , episcopal ordination . On August 2, 1846, he took over the chair from his predecessor.

On June 5, 1847, he established the still active Armenian Catholic Congregation of the Armenian Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Mary . In the years around 1853/54 there were heated discussions within the church about the participation rights of Armenian priests and lay people in the election of bishops and patriarchs, into which Pope Pius IX. vigorously intervened in favor of the privileges of the episcopate and the Roman papal see.

After the death of Cilicia Patriarch Krikor Bedros VIII. Asdvadzadourian († 1866) was hatred Unian with Roman support on 14 September 1866 in Bzommar by a synod of bishops, contrary to previous practice without the involvement of priests and laity, to Patriarch elected by Cilicia and on July 12, 1867 by Pope Pius IX. approved.

New seat of the patriarch

In 1866, both Armenian Catholic jurisdictions in the Ottoman Empire , the Patriarchate and the Archdiocese of Constantinople , were united and the residence of the Patriarch from Bzommar was relocated to Constantinople (Istanbul). Hassunian took part in the First Vatican Council and supported, as the only patriarch of the Eastern Catholic Churches, the dogmas declared in 1870 about infallibility and the universal primacy of the Roman Pope. As a reaction to the events, there were unrest and church division within the Armenian Catholic Church for several years, the temporary or permanent conversion of several bishops and monk priests, including Malachia Ormanian , to the Armenian Orthodox Church and the withdrawal of Hassunian's state recognition as head of the Armenian Catholic Church in the Ottoman Empire.

Deposition and resignation

On May 13, 1871, Hassunian was deposed from the state and expelled from the country in 1872. The 1871 by Pius IX. He declined the offer of promotion to cardinal curia. He spent the years 1872 to 1876 as patriarch in exile in Rome. The previous patriarchal seat in Bzommar was taken over by dissidents and appointed an Armenian Catholic counter-patriarch. The pacified Pope Leo XIII. In 1878 Hassunian called again to Rome and on April 18, 1879 achieved the public reconciliation of the dissidents with the Holy See. Hassunian became a cardinal priest on December 13, 1880 with the titular church Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio and officially resigned from the patriarchal office in June 1881. He died on February 28, 1884. Grave on Campo Verano .

Consecrations

During his tenure he consecrated nine bishops, who took over newly founded eparchies . Partly titular dioceses arose from these , these are: Ancyra degli Armeni , Trapezus degli Armeni , Mush degli Armeni and Marasc degli Armeni . He consecrated his successor Stephano Bedros X. Azarian as titular archbishop of Nicosia .

literature

• L. Petit: Article Arménie. In: Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique 1, 2 (1902) 1888–1968, esp. 1911–1919.
• Ms. Tournebize: Article Arménie. In: Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastique 4 (1930) 299-301.
• John Whooley: The Armenian Catholic Church. A Study in History and Ecclesiology. In: Heythrop Journal 45 (2004) 416-434, esp. 418-421.

Web links

• Hassoun, Andon Bedros. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed July 28, 2016. (English)
• Entry on Antoine-Pierre IX Hassun on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on July 28, 2016.
• Biographies of Past Catholicos Patriarch in the Armenian Catholic Church History (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Krikor Bedros VIII. The Asdvadzadourian	Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church 1866–1881	Stephano Bedros X. Azarian