Bishop Hovnan Hakobyan
Primate of the Diocese of Gougark
- General Information
Was born in 1978, in Gymri. Baptismal name is Artur.
From 1985 to 1993 - Secondary School № 28 after Petros Duryan.
From 1993 to 1997 - Shirak Theological Academy.
From 1997 to 2003 - Gevorkian Theological Seminary.
In 2010 - St. John University, St. Cloud Minnesota, USA.
- Ecclesiastical titles and ordination
In 2002 - Ordained to the diaconate by His Eminence Archbishop Nerses Pozapalian.
In 2003 - Ordained as a celibate priest by His Eminence Archbishop David Sahakyan.
In 2010 - Rank of Archimandrite by His Grace Bishop Ararat Galtakchkian. Thesis: “The False Sect of the Tondrakians”.
In 2011 - Consecrated as a Bishop by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.
- Tenure
From 2003 to 2006 - responsibility of overseeing the care and preservation of the buildings of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
From 2006 to 2010 - Staff Bearer to His Holiness and Ritual Director for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
From 2010 to 2011 - Acting Sacristan of the Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin.
From 2011 to 2020 - Grand Sacristan of the Mother See.
Since 2020 - Primate of the Diocese of Gougark.
