Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni

Summary

Nerses Bedros XIX (Armenian: Ներսէս Պետրոս ԺԹ. Թարմունի, romanizedNerses Petros ZhT. T'armuni) (17 January 1940 – 25 June 2015) was the patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church.

His Beatitude

  • Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni
  • Ներսէս Պետրոս ԺԹ. Թարմունի
Patriarch Catholicos of Cilicia
Patriarch Nerses, at Armenian Cultural Center
SeeArmenian Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia
Appointed13 October 1999
Term ended25 June 2015
PredecessorHovhannes Bedros XVIII Kasparian
SuccessorKrikor Bedros XX Gabroyan
Other post(s)Armenian Bishop of Alexandria
Orders
Ordination15 August 1965
by Raphaël Bayan
Consecration18 February 1990
by Hovhannes Bedros XVIII Kasparian
Personal details
Born
Pierre Taza

(1940-01-17)17 January 1940
Died25 June 2015(2015-06-25) (aged 75)
Beirut, Lebanon
DenominationArmenian Catholic
ResidenceLebanon
ParentsElias Taza and Josephine Azouz
Previous post(s)
  • Armenian Bishop of Alexandria (1989–1999)
Styles of
Nerses Bedros XIX
Reference styleHis Beatitude
Spoken styleYour Beatitude
Religious styleCatholicos
Posthumous stylen/a

He was the second son and the fifth of eight children born to Elias Taza and Josephine Azouz. He completed his primary and secondary studies at the College of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Frères des écoles chrétiennes) in Cairo.[1]

He felt a vocation for the priesthood very early in life and thus was sent to the Armenian Leonine Pontifical College in Rome in 1958 where he studied Philosophy and Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. His Bishop, Raphaël Bayan ordained him as a priest in Cairo on 15 August 1965.[2] In Heliopolis he was known as Father Pierre Taza.

He served the parish of the Armenian Catholic Cathedral of the Annunciation in Cairo from 1965 to 1968 with the Rev John Kasparian who, in 1982, became Catholicos-Patriarch under the name of Hovhannes Bedros XVIII (John Peter XVIII Kasparian). From 1968 to 1990, Pierre Taza was curate of the parish of St Therese of Heliopolis in Cairo.[1]

On 18 February 1990, he was ordained bishop of the Eparchy (Diocese) of Alexandria for Egypt and Sudan by the laying on of hands of Jean Pierre XVIII. From 1992 to 1997, as member of the Catholic Hierarchy of Egypt, he was the General Secretary of the Pastoral Council of the Catholic Church of Egypt.[1]

As a member of the Synod of the Bishops of the Catholic Armenian Patriarch Church, he was:

  • Member of the Council of the three Bishops to direct the Patriarchal Curie from 1993 to 1995
  • President of the Patriarchal Commission for the Vocations from 1993 to 1995
  • Member of the Permanent Synod as of 1994

In October 1999, he was elected by the Bishops of the Holy Synod of the Catholic Armenian Synod, Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics and took the name Nerses Bedros XIX.[1]

He remained in this position until his death on June 25, 2015.[2]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Armenian Catholic Church Archived 2011-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b "Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX (Boutros) Tarmouni (Taza)". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved June 25, 2015.

External links edit

  • Biography on official site of the Armenian Catholic Church
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Armenian Catholic Bishop of Alexandria
1989–1999
Succeeded by
Kricor-Okosdinos Coussa
Preceded by Patriarch Catholicos of Cilicia
1999–2015
Succeeded by