Yeghic Tourian
Yeghische I. Tourian ( Armenian Եղիշէ Դուրեան , Turkish İstanbullu I. Yeğişe Turyan ; born February 23, 1860 in Istanbul , Ottoman Empire ; † April 27, 1930 in Jerusalem ) was an archbishop and Armenian patriarch of Constantinople and an Armenian patriarch from 1921 to 1929 from Jerusalem .
Life
In Constantinople
Mihran (baptismal name) Tourian was born in Üsküdar as the youngest of six children of the married couple Abraham and Arousiag Zimba. His older brother was the West Armenian poet and playwright Bedros Tourian . On 9/10 December 1878 he was ordained a deacon, on May 19, 1879 a monk priest. With the ordination he was given the name Yeghische. He took on administrative and teaching tasks in Bardizag (today: Bahçecik) and at the Armasch seminary (near Izmit ). In Istanbul from 1880 to 1885 he published a series of textbooks on the Armenian language. In 1909 he published his first poems and regularly contributed to armenological studies in various publications.
On October 23, 1898 he was ordained bishop, but continued to work as a professor in Armasch until 1904. From 1904 to 1908 he acted as diocesan bishop of Smyrna , in 1908 as patriarchal administrator ( Locum tenens ) and, after a brief interim pontificate, from May 22, 1909 to his resignation on November 26, 1910, as patriarch of Constantinople of the Armenian Apostolic Church . He spent the following decade teaching in Constantinople. In 1918 and 1920 he was a member of the Armenian delegation to the peace negotiations in Paris.
In Jerusalem
He then moved as a pilgrim to Jerusalem , where, after eleven years of vacancy (1910–1921), he was enthroned on November 7, 1921 as the successor to Harutiun Vehabedian as the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem. In 1925 he was involved in various educational reforms and in 1929 founded a United Elementary School. He modernized the curriculum of the Armenian seminary and recruited teachers among the survivors of the 1915 Armenian genocide . By choosing different locations, including the St. Gayane Girls' School, the new elementary school became the most important institution of Armenian co-educational teaching in the Holy Land . It was later renamed "School of Holy Translators" (Armenian "Serpots Tarkmantchats Varjaran"). Under Patriarch Yegische, the "Calouste Gulbenkian Library" of the Jerusalem Armenian Patriarchate was founded, which took up the patriarch's rich private library.
From 1927 Tourian published the magazine Sion (Սիոն), the official organ of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. His collections and writings were published in Jerusalem in a multi-volume series called "Matenashar Tourian". This also contained some of his poems under the title Srpazan Knar (Սրբազան քնար).
He was succeeded as Patriarch Torkom Koushagian (1929-1939), who wrote a comprehensive study of Tourian's legacy in the Egyptian- Armenian daily Arev , which was later published separately in Jerusalem.
Works
- 1926 Trvakner Manuk Hisusi geanken ,
- 1933-1936 Ampoghjagan Jerker
- 1936 Srpazan knar
literature
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Armenian Patriarchate of St. James in Jerusalem ( Memento of July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Գառնիկ Ստեփանյան: Կենսագրական բառարան, հատոր Ա . «Սովետական գրող», Երևան 1973, p. էջ 292-293 .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Harutiun Vehabedian |
Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Armenian Apostolic Church 1921–1929 |
Torkom Koushagian |
| Matheos III. Izmirlian |
Patriarch of Constantinople of the Armenian Apostolic Church 1909–1910 |
Hovhannes XII. Arsharouni |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tourian, Yeghish |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Turyan, Yeğişe; Turian, Yeghish |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople and Jerusalem |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1930 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |