Khachatur III. (Catholicos of Aghtamar)

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Khachatur III. Schiroian (* in the village of Poghanis, Vilâyet Van ; † December 22, 1895 in Van ), was a Catholicos of the Aghtamar Catholic of the Armenian Apostolic Church .

Catholicos Khatchatur III. Schiroian (1864–1895)

He began his career in Echmiadzin as a servant to an Armenian bishop who bequeathed him an inheritance. He then joined the brotherhood of the island monastery of Aghtamar and was ordained a priest monk there. He supported the controversial election and ordination of the Catholicos Petros I (1858–1864 ), was ordained bishop by him and appointed grand sacristan, in fact number two, of the Catholicate. On September 10, 1864, he took part in the conspiracy to overthrow Petros I in Narekawank and was elevated to the status of Catholicos of Aghtamar on September 25, 1864. The charge of being involved in the murder of his predecessor (September 28, 1864) led to the establishment of a locum tenens by Constantinople in 1866 . In 1868 he faced a church trial that ended in his acquittal in 1875.

From 1876 Khachatur III worked. again in Aghtamar. He developed a lively church building activity, also set up a mainland residence, an orphanage and, in 1890, a museum with a manuscript collection in the Aghtamar monastery. In 1883 he had a stately new kettle made for the consecration of Myron , reserved for the Katholikoi (today in the Etschmiadzin Museum). In 1895, terminally ill, he was taken to a hospital in Van and died there on December 22nd, 1895. He was the last Catholicos of Aghtamar. He was buried in the Aghtamar monastery .

literature

  • Frédéric Macler: Le Liber pontificalis des Catholicos d'Agthamar . In: Journal Asiatique , Vol. 202 (1923), pp. 37-69, bves. 67f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edda Vardanyan: Un Maštoc 'd'ordination et de sacre royal du XVe siècle . In: Revue des Études Arméniennes 29 (2003/04) 183.213, note 254.
personal data
SURNAME Khachatur III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiroian, Khachatur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian Catholicos
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Poghanis, Vilayet Van
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1895
Place of death Van