Howsep Arghutjan

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. Howsep II Arghutjan Jerkajnabasuk ( Armenian Հովսեփ Բ Արղության Երկայնաբազուկ * 1743 , † March 9 . Jul / 21st March  1801 greg. In Tbilisi ) was one Armenian - Russian Archbishop and Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church .

Life

Howsep's father Schioch Beg came from the family of the princes Mchargrdseli-Arghutashvili, who belonged to the Armenian- Georgian extended family of the Mchargrdseli-Sakarjans. This family of partly Kurdish origin was traced back to the Achaemenids Artaxerxes II with the nickname Longarm (according to the Georgian name Mchargrdseli and the Armenian Jerkajnabasuk). Historically, it was a side branch of the Arzruni .

Howsep became Archbishop of the Armenians in the Russian Empire in 1773 . Of Emperor Paul I , he received in 1799 the Order of Saint Anna . He strove to unite the Russian Orthodox Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church.

After the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1791) and the Peace of Jassy , Howsep founded the city of Grigoriopol , in which, in addition to Armenians, many Christians from Moldova , Wallachia and Bessarabia were settled. Thanks Howseps ministry joined in Transcaucasia , the Khans of the saddle makers and the shoe shearing of the Russian Empire. Many from the Meliks in Nagorno-Karabakh , the Kura Steppes and Sjunik, as well as more than 30,000 Armenians, took Russian citizenship and settled on Russian territory. For his services, Paul I. raised Howsep in 1800 as Prince Iosif Argutinski-Dolgoruki ( long-sleeved ) ( Russian Иосиф Аргутинский-Долгорукий ) with his family in the Russian nobility and confirmed him as patriarch of his Armenian people.

The Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Luke I of Erzurum , who had ruled since 1780, sought protection from the Russian government and wanted Howsep as his successor. The clergy in Vagharschapat wanted the Patriarch of Constantinople of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Daniel I of Surmari, supported by the Ottoman Empire , as the new Catholicos. Thanks to the support of Emperor Paul. I. and King George XII. Howsep was elected Catholicos by Georgia in 1800 and recognized by Iran . He died in Tbilisi in 1801 on the way to his enthronement in Vagharschapat. He was buried in the St. Gajane Church in Wagharschapat. His successor was initially Daniel I of Surmari, but David V. Ghorganjan took him prisoner with the support of the regent of Georgia David Bagration in Vagharschapat and was recognized by the Synod of Vagharschapat as the Catholicos David V.

Howsep's grandson was Prince General Moisei Sakharovich Argutinsky-Dolgoruki .

In Nakhichevan-on-Don is since 1999 a Howsep monument.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bournoutian, Georges A .: Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia 1797–1889: a documentary record . Mazda Publ., Mesa, California 1998, ISBN 1-56859-068-7 .
  2. ↑ a b Cyrille Toumanoff : Les Dynasties de la Caucasie Chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe Siècle. Tables Généalogiques et Chronologiques . Rome 1990, p. 299 .
  3. ↑ Paul Adalian: Historical Dictionary of Armenia . Rouben, 2010, p. 83 .
  4. ↑ Chorbajian, Levon; Donabedian Patrick; Mutafian, Claude: The Caucasian Knot: The History and Geo-Politics of Nagorno-Karabagh . Zed Books, New Jersey 1994, pp. 66-67 .
personal data
SURNAME Arghutjan, Howsep
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Արղության Երկայնաբազուկ, Հովսեփ Բ (Armenian); Argutinski-Dolgoruki, Iosif; Аргутинский-Долгорукий, Иосиф (Russian); Arghutjan Jerkajnabasuk, Howsep II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-Russian Archbishop and Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church
DATE OF BIRTH 1743
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1801
Place of death Tbilisi