Mikaël Antoine Mouradian

Mikaël Antoine Mouradian ICPB (born July 5, 1961 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is an Armenian Catholic Bishop of New York . The jurisdiction includes the United States and Canada .

Life

His training as a priest began in 1973 at the Pontifical Armenian College in Rome . He continued his studies in 1981 in the seminary of the Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar . He later studied at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas and graduated with an academic theological-philosophical degree. In 1986 he began additional studies at the Catholic University in Lyon . He was ordained a religious priest of the Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar on October 24, 1987 in Paris by Bishop Grégoire Ghabroyan .

Priest and teacher

Mouradian was from 1987 to 1988 in the order's own seminaries Bzommar (1987-1988) and Aleppo (1988-1989) assistant to the local rain . In 1991 he took over an Armenian parish in Damascus . From 1992 to 2001 he was deployed in various parishes in northern Armenia and from 1992 to 2001 he was General Secretary and Managing Director of Caritas International in Armenia. In 2000 he was appointed honorary professor at a pedagogical faculty. From 2005 to 2007 he was entrusted with the office of procurator in the Patriarchate of Cilicia . After his return to Lebanon, he was pastor in Beirut from 2001 to 2005 , then spiritual director of the Bzommar seminary and chaplain of the Armenian Catholic youth organization. In 2005 Mouradian became Rector of the Pontifical College in Rome, at the same time he was Patriarchal Procurator at the Holy See in the Vatican . On September 2, 2007, the General Assembly of the Congregation of Bzommar elected him Patriarchal Vicar and Superior of the Monastery of “Our Lady of Bzommar”.

bishop

He was appointed Bishop for the Armenian Believers in the United States and Canada on July 31, 2011, succeeding Manuel Batakian , and on July 30, 2011 by Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX. for consecrated bishop . Co - consecrators were Archbishop Boutros Marayati ( Aleppo , Syria ), Bishop Grégoire Ghabroyan (Paris), Archbishop Nechan Karakéhéyan ( Ordinariate Eastern Europe ) and Manuel Batakian (his predecessor in the Office of New York). The official inauguration took place on October 2, 2011.

Participant in the Middle East Synod

As Patriarchal Vicar of the Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar, he took part in the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Middle East in October 2010 . With his contribution he appealed to the Christian families in the Holy Land . He lamented the drop in birth rates , the material and moral problems and urged families to become more involved in the faith .

Web links

• Entry on Mikaël Antoine Mouradian on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Entry on Mikaël Antoine Mouradian on gcatholic.org (English)
• Asbarez.com: New Armenian eparch the US and Canada (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ St. Addai the apostole chaldean catholic parish in New Zealand [1]

predecessor	Office	successor
Manuel Batakian ICPB	Armenian Catholic Bishop of New York since 2010	---