Schnork Kalustjan
Archbishop Schnork I. Kalustjan (birth name Arşak , Armenian Շնորհք Գալուստյան , French Chenork Kaloustian ; born September 27, 1913 in İğdeli near Çandır , Yozgat ; † March 7, 1990 in Etschmiadzin , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union ), bourgeois Şınorhk Kalustyan , was 82 . Armenian apostolic Patriarch of Constantinople Opel under the authority of the Catholicos of All Armenians, based in Echmiadzin.
Life
Kalustjan, who came from the Turkish province of Yozgat , lost his father in the Armenian massacres in 1915 ; his mother was forced to marry a Muslim. Therefore, he grew up in various orphanages. From 1927 he was trained in the Armenian Seminary in Jerusalem. When he was ordained a monk priest there in 1935, Patriarch Torkom Manoogian named him Schnork ("grace"). He then worked as a teacher and dean at the Theological Seminary of the Cilean Catholicate at Antelias , later as a pastor in London and the "Eastern Diocese of the USA". After his election as primate of the “Western Diocese of the USA”, Catholicos Wasgen I consecrated him as bishop in Etschmiadzin in 1953 . In 1957 he became Grand Sacristan of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem . In the following years he worked at the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople , as an American citizen without an official office.
Schnork Kalustjan was unanimously elected Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople on October 11, 1961 and, because of this and his birth in Turkey, was confirmed by the Turkish authorities by decree of December 25, 1961. He served in this position in Istanbul for 27 years , taking care of the renovation of churches and the ordination of priests and bishops. He researched the fate of the Crypto-Armenians and in 1980, during a meeting with the Armenian community in Jerusalem, presented a list in which he divided the Armenians in Turkey into four groups. On July 25, 1967, he welcomed Pope Paul VI. visiting his patriarchate on November 29, 1979 Pope John Paul II.
Kaloustian also visited the seriously injured Artin Penik , who set himself on fire in 1982 in protest against the Asala , an underground organization with roots in the Armenian diaspora, in the hospital and donated the sacraments to him. He called Penik a symbol of displeasure towards these "brutal murderers".
Patriarch Schnork I died as a result of a fall on March 7, 1990 in Etchmiadzin in what was then Soviet Armenia . He was buried in the Şişli cemetery, Istanbul.
Web links
- Kevork Pamukciyan, Vağarşag Seropyan: Şınorhk Kalustyan. Dünden Bugüne İstanbul Ansiklopedisi, c. 4, 1994, p. 400.
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Karékine I. Khachadourian |
Patriarch of Constantinople of the Armenian Apostolic Church 1963–1990 |
Karékine II. Kazanjian |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kalustjan, Schnork |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kalustjan, Schnork I .; Arşak, Chenork |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | 82. Armenian Apostolic Patriarch of Constantinople |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | İğdeli near Çandır , Yozgat |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1990 |
| Place of death | Etchmiadzin , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union |