Boghos Bedros XI. Emanuelian

Boghos Bedros XI. Emanuelian , also Paul Peter XI. Emanuelian (born January 16, 1829 in Telerpen , † April 18, 1904 ), was the eleventh Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia . He was a philosopher and theological writer .

Life

Boghos Emanuelian was appointed Bishop of Casarea ( Kayseri ) in Cappadocia on August 26, 1881 . On 24./26. In July 1899 the Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church elected him Patriarch of Cilicia. Pope Leo XIII. (1878-1903) confirmed him in office.

Bedros XI. consecrated his successor Boghos Bedros XII. Sabbaghian appointed bishop of Iskanderiya in Egypt . Patriarch Bedros XI. held two other episcopal offices, from 1899 to 1904 he was also Archbishop of Constantinople and Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy of Ispahan in Iran . Bedros XI went down in the history of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchs. as a "philosophical patriarch". In practice he was not very close to political and national life. He was more of a philosopher, theologian and author.

Web links

• Entry on gcatholic.org (English)
• Apostolic succession in Asia
• Entry to Boghos Bedros XI. Emanuelian on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Biographies of Past Catholicos Patriarch in the Armenian Catholic Church History (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Casarea diocese in Cappadocia was founded in 1850. In 1972 it was renamed Cappadocia degli Armeni to the titular diocese of Caesarea . [1]
2. ↑ The Archdiocese of Constantinople was merged with the Patriarchate of Cilicia. Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Apostolic Succession in Iran [2]

predecessor	Office	successor
Stephano Bedros X. Azarian	Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church 1899 - 1904	Boghos Bedros XII. Sabbaghian