Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan
Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America
- General Information
Was born in 1981, in Yerevan. Baptismal name is Aram.
From 1987 to 1997 -N 65 Secondary Schhol in Yerevan.
From 1997 to 2002 - Vaskenian Seminary in Sevan.
From 2002 to 2003 - Gevorkian Theological Seminary, Bachelor of Theology.
From 2004 to 2007 - University of Strasbourg (France), (Master of Theology and Religious Studies).
In 2005 - Dublin (Ireland) International Study Center.
- Ecclesiastical titles and ordination
In 2001 - Ordained to the diaconate by His Eminence Archbishop Mikael Ajapahian.
In 2003 - Ordained as a celibate priest by His Eminence Archbishop Shahan Svajian.
In 2011 - Rank of Archimandrite by His Eminence Archbishop ANoushavan Jamkochian thesis: "Being God": the three-step path of human deification according to the doctrine of Saint Nerses the Graceful".
In 2023 - Consecrated as a Bishop by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.
- Tenure
From 2003 to 2004 - Staff bearer of the Catholicos of All Armenians.
From 2007 to 2011 - Vice Chancellor of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and Lecturer of the Gevorkian Theological Semianry (Christian ethics).
From 2007 to 2014 - Member of the "Church and Society" Committee of the Conference of European Churches.
From 2008 to 2009 - Spirtual Pastor of St. Mary Magdalene Church in Brussels (Belgium).
From 2009 to 2010 - Spiritual Pastor of the Holy Virgin Church in Nice (France).
From 2010 to 2012 - Locum Tenens of Armenian Diocese of Switzerland and Spiritual pastor of Saint Jacob Church in Geneva.
In 2013 - Vicar General of Marseilles and Southern France.
From 2013 to 2014 - Locum Tenens of the Armenian Diocese of France.
From 2015 to 2017 - Spiritual Pastor of the St. Shoghakat Church (Eastern Diocese of the Armenian church in North America).
From 2017 to 2018 - Director of the Preaching and Education Center of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian church in North America.
From 2018 to 2020 - Grand Sacristan of the St. Vardan Church (Eastern Diocese of the Armenian church in North America).
From 2010 to 2021 - Dean of the Gevorkian Theological Center.
Since 2021 - Director of the Preaching and Education Center of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian church in North America.
Since 2022 - Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America
Since 2023 - Member of the Supreme Spirituall Council.
- Books and Scientific Works
"Semantic acquisitions of the prepositions ‘ar and I’ according to Yeghishe, "For the sake of Vardanants and the Armenian War" book”, Holy Etchmiadzin, 2003.
"For the Theology of Culture: The Light of Faith and the Image of Revelation in Hans Urs von Balthasar's “The Glory and the Cross”, Strasbourg, 2007.
"Being God": the three-step path of human deification according to the doctrine of Saint Nerses the Graceful", Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, 2015.
"Light and Hope: Spiritual meditations", Yerevan, 2021.
