Vartan Hunanian

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Vartan Hunanian (born February 17, 1644 in Tokat , † June 15, 1715 in Lemberg ) was an Armenian bishop in communion with the Roman Pope.

Ordained a deacon in the Armenian Apostolic Church , Hunanian was sent to Lviv in 1665 with an embassy from the Catholicos Jacob IV of Etschmiadzin (1655–1680) to oppose the efforts of the Catholic Union among the local Armenian community. Interested in-depth education, Hunanian occurred in Lviv, which was founded in 1664 College of Theatines one. In 1668 he took part in one of the first Armenian-language theater performances . In view of his academic success, he was sent to the Collegium Urbanianum in Rome for further training in 1670, where he was ordained a priest. In 1674 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith appointed him coadjutor of the Lviv Armenian bishop Nikolaj Torosowicz (Torosyan), who had been personally Catholic since 1629, and who consecrated him bishop in Rome without the consent of his congregation. However, Hunanian was unable to assert himself in Lviv, left the city in 1675 and returned to Etschmiadzin in 1678/79 , where Catholicos Jacob IV allowed him to do pastoral work. His successor Eleazar (1681-1691), however, had him arrested because of his Catholic inclinations and liturgical innovations. Released from custody, Hunanian was able to return to Lemberg, where, as Rome planned, he succeeded N. Torosowicz, who died in 1681. In 1689 he celebrated an Armenian provincial synod in Lemberg together with the nuncio Giacomo Cantelmo . She definitely dissolved the fellowship with Echmiadzin and declared full church union with Rome.

literature

  • Article Vartan Hounanian . In: Biographie universal 47. Michaud, Paris 1827, 536-537.
  • Frédéric Macler: Rapport sur une mission scientifique en Transylvanie (September-October 1934). Manuscrits arméniens de Transylvanie . Geuthner, Paris 1935, 42.
  • Gregorio Petrowicz: L'unione degli Armeni di Polonia con la Santa Sede (1629–1686) (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 135). Roma 1950.
  • Ernst Ch Suttner: States and churches in the peoples' world of Eastern Europe: Developments in modern times . Academic Press, Friborg 2007, 336.

Single receipts

  1. ^ Jean-Antoine Saint-Martin: Analysis d'une tragédie arménienne consacrée au martyre de Sainte Hripsime . In: Journal Asiatique Jan. 1823, 22-27.
personal data
SURNAME Hunanian, Vartan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian bishop in communion with the Roman pope
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1644
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokat
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1715
Place of death Lviv