Aram Ateşyan

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Archbishop Aram Ateşyan (baptized Artin Ateş ; born January 1, 1954 in Silvan , Diyarbakır province ) is the Deputy Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople and the incumbent head of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Turkey . He has held the post of patriarch since the incumbent Mesrop Mutafyan , who has since died, fell seriously ill and was barely able to serve.

Life

The Armenians Aram Atesyan was in the St. Giragos Cathedral of Diyarbakir in the name Artin Ateş baptized and began his education in his native Silvan. He then went to Istanbul , where he attended what was then the Surp Haç Tıbrevank high school for theology . After nine years of study he successfully graduated from the Jerusalem Theological Seminary .

Aram Ateşyan's childhood was not easy, many of his relatives and family members were threatened with death to convert from Christianity to Islam : for example, his brother-in-law was told that if he did not become a Muslim , they would kill him - he was thus forcibly adopted to embrace Islam forced. His sister also converted to Islam in the 1950s. Therefore, his relatives are so-called crypto - Armenians . Aram Ateşyan's nephew and his children were attacked.

In April 2009 he received the President of the United States Barack Obama together with the Jewish Chief Rabbi ( Chacham Baschi ) Ishak Haleva and the Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan Yusuf Çetin . In September 2010, Aram Ateşyan led the first mass since the Armenian genocide in the renovated Church of the Holy Cross on Akdamar in Lake Van .

On April 27, 2013, Ateşyan claimed that up to 90% of the rural population in Tunceli ( Dersim ) were of Armenian origin. He regards Turkey as his mother country ( Turkish Anavatan ) and Armenia as his fatherland (poor. Hayrenig ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basepiskopos Aram Ateşyan. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved February 25, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Many Armenians in Turkey have been Islamized - "Armenia is our fatherland, Turkey our motherland". Retrieved February 25, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Small religious summit with the US President. Retrieved February 25, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Ateşyan, Aram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ateş, Artin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian patriarch
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Silvan , Diyarbakır Province