Matheos III. Izmirlian

Matheos II. Izmirlian

As the Patriarch of Constantinople

Tomb of Matheos in front of the Echmiadzin

Matheos III. Izmirlian ( Armenian Մատթէոս Բ Իզմիրլեան ; * February 22, 1845 in Constantinople , Ottoman Empire ; † December 11, 1910 in Etschmiadzin , Russian Empire ), also Matthew II of Constantinople ( Մատթէոս Բ. Կոնստանդնուպոլսեցի Matt'ēos II Kostandnupolsec'i ), was from 1894 to 1896 and 1908 the Armenian Apostolic Patriarch of Constantinople and from 1908 to 1910 Catholicos of the entire Armenian Apostolic Church .

Life

Matheos was born in Constantinople in 1845 as Simeon Martiros Izmirlian (Armenian Սիմեոն Մարտիրոսի Իզմիրլեան). He was ordained a priest in 1869 and initially served as secretary to Patriarch Mkrtitsch Chrimjan . In 1872 he was elected secretary of the Armenian Religious Council of Constantinople, rose to dzayrakouyn vartabed in 1873 and became bishop in 1876 .

From 1886 to 1890 he was the primacy of the Armenians in Egypt . Back in Constantinople, Matheos Izmirlian was elected Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople in 1894 . His insistence on democratic reforms and the protection of the rights of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as well as his protest against the massacres of the Armenians in 1894–1896 earned him the title of "Iron Patriarch" (poor. Երկաթյա պատրիարք Yergatya Badryark ).

Because of his activism, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II deposed Izmirlian and banished him to Jerusalem ; he was replaced by Malachia Ormanian (1896-1908). After the Young Turkish Revolution in 1908, when the Committee for Unity and Progress proclaimed constitutional reforms, Izmirlian returned to Constantinople and was re-elected Patriarch on November 1st. After only a few months, Izmirlian was elected "Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians" due to the death of Catholicos Chrimian, which is why he left the city towards Etschmiadzin to be consecrated there.

In 1909 he traveled via Odessa to Saint Petersburg , where he met with Tsar Nicholas II in July to campaign for the release of members of the «Comités arméniens de Russie». When he returned to Echmiadzin, he died in 1910 after only two years in a Catholic prison .

Izmirlian published numerous and extensive works, including a 1,300-page book which was published in Constantinople in 1881 under the title "Հայրապետություն Հայաստանյայց առաքելական Ս. Եկեղեցվո և Աղթամար ու Սիս “was released. It dealt with the history of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Armenia , Aghtamar and Sis . In 1911 his letters (called "Նամականի" Namakani ) were published in Cairo .

bibliography

• Kevork Pamukciyan-Vağarşag Seropyan, Madteos İzmirliyan , Dünden Bugüne İstanbul Ansiklopedisi, c. 4, pp. 312-13, Istanbul 1994
• M. Ağavnuni, Miapank Yev Aytzeluk Hay Yerusağemi (Ermeni Kudüs'ün Din Adamları ve Ziyaretçileri), Jerusalem 1929
• Ş. Kapamacıyan, Madteos Arkyebisgobos İzmirliyan-Yeğişe Yebisgobos Turyan (Başepiskopos Madteos İzmirliyan-Episkopos Yeğişe Turyan), Ist. 1908
• E. Ç. Kömürciyan, Isdambolo Badmutyun (İstanbul Tarihi), I-III, Venedik, Viyana, 1913–1938
• Kömürciyan, İstanbul Tarihi
• M. Ormanyan, Azkabadum, III, Jerusalem 1927
• S. Şah-Nazaryantz, Vehapar İzmirliyanı (Başpatrik İzmirliyan), Ist. 1910
• Teotig ( Theotoros Laptschindschian ), Amenum Daretzuytz (Herkesin Yıllığı), Ist. 1910

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Selon Krikor Jacob Basmadjian, “Chronologie de l'histoire d'Arménie”, dans Revue de l'Orient Chrétien , tome IX (XIX), Paris, 1914, p. 373.

predecessor	Office	successor
Mkrtitsch I. Chrimian	Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church 1908–1910	George V.
Chorus I. Aschekian	Patriarch of Constantinople of the Armenian Apostolic Church 1894–1896 (deposed and exiled by the Ottomans)	Maghakia Ormanian
Maghakia Ormanian	Patriarch of Constantinople of the Armenian Apostolic Church 1908	Yeghic Tourian