Nerses II. Varjapetian

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Nerses II. Varjabedyan

Nerses II. Varjapetian or Nerses Warschapetjan ( Armenian Ներսես Վարժապետյան ; * 1837 in Constantinople ; † 1884 ibid) was the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople from 1873 to 1884.

Nerses II Varjapetian lived in or around Constantinople all his life. He was ordained a priest in 1858 and a bishop in 1862 . In 1873, at the age of 37, he was elected Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. In an encyclical he supported the Ottoman war effort in the Russo-Ottoman War 1877–1878 . When the extent of the Kurdish robberies against Ottoman Armenians became known, the Armenian-Ottoman National Assembly authorized Nerses II. Varjapetian to ask the Russian Grand Duke Nicholas in San Stefano to enforce local autonomy in the Armenian provinces of the Ottoman Empire . Under Article 16 of the Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano / Yeşilköy (March 1878), Russia and the Ottoman Empire agreed to grant reforms and security to the Armenians in the eastern provinces (Batum, Ardahan, Kars). At the subsequent Berlin congress , to which Mkrtitsch Chrimjan was sent as a representative of Armenian interests, the Armenians were not given a hearing. The reforms of San Stefano were reversed. At the time of the death of Nerses II Varjapetian, small groups of Armenians from the eastern provinces began to band together for self-defense from Kurdish raids in response to the uncertainty.

literature

  • Vağarşag Seropyan: Nerses Varjabedyan , Dünden Bugüne İstanbul Ansiklopedisi, c. 7, pp. 368-369, (1994).
  • Komisyon: Nerses Badriark Varjabedyan (Patrik Nerses Varjabedyan), Ist., 1985;
  • C. Giragosyan: Nerses Varjabedyan . In: Haygagan Sovedagan Hanrakidaran (Soviet-Armenian Encyclopedia), VIII, Yerevan 1982

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Werth: Imperial Russia and the Armenian Catholicos at Home and Abroad . In: Osamu Ieda, Tomohiko Uyama: Reconstruction and Interaction of Slavic Eurasia and Its Neighboring Worlds , Slavic Research Center (Hokkaido University), Sapporo, 2006, p. 220.
predecessor Office successor
Mkrtitsch Chrimian Patriarch of Constantinople Opel of the Armenian Apostolic Church
1873 - 1884 		Harutiun I. Vehabedian
personal data
SURNAME Varjapetian, Nerses II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Varjapétian, Nersès II .; Varjabedyan, Nerses; Ներսես Վարձապետյան (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople
DATE OF BIRTH 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH 1884
Place of death Constantinople