New Appointment in the Mother See
25.08.2004
By the Pontifical Order of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, Very Rev. Fr. Anushavan Vardapet Jamkotchian, a member of the Brotherhood of Holy Etchmiadzin, has been assigned as parish priest of Saint Gregory the Illuminator Mother Cathedral of Yerevan.
Father Anushavan, having recently completed his education in the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University (Bonn, Germany), has returned to the Mother See to continue his service to the Armenian Church. Father Anushavan is a doctoral candidate in the field of religious rights.
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Very Rev. Fr. Anushavan Vardapet Jamkotchian
(baptismal name - Andranik)
Born in Vagharshapat, Armenia in 1971, he received his primary and secondary education at Vahan Rshtuni School.
Studied in the Gevorkian Theological Seminary of Holy Etchmiadzin from 1989-1994. Defended his thesis entitled "Movses Jughayetsi's Collection of Philology", and graduated from the Seminary.
In 1993, he was ordained a deacon.
He was ordained a celibate priest in 1995 by His Grace Bishop Asoghik Aristakesian.
From 1994-1998, he attended classes at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan. Concurrently, he was an instructor of liturgical music at the Gevorkian Theological Seminary.
From 1998-2000 he studied church music in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, at Halle Protestant College.
From 2000-2001, Father Anushavan studied German at Martin Luther University.
In 2001, he returned to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, and defended his thesis entitled "Komitas and the Armenian Church" and was elevated to the rank of Vardapet (Archimandrite).
Also in 2001, he studied in the School of Law of Martin Luther University in Germany, concentrating on "Jurisprudence and the Rights of the Church".
From 2002 to 2004, Anushavan Vardapet studied "Church Canon Law" at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, Germany.
In 2004, he defended his thesis entitled "The Basis of Rights of the Armenian Church from the 4th through 20th Centuries", and became a candidate of doctoral sciences.
