New Armenian Patriarch in Jerusalem


On January 24, 2013, the Armenian Fraternity of Saint James elected the 97th Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Nourhan Manougian.

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The 33 members of the Fraternity chose Archbishop Manougian from the five candidates presented. The new Patriarch was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1948. He was ordained a priest in 1971 and a bishop in 1999. He succeeds the recently deceased Patriarch Torkom II Manougian.

We wish the new Patriarch every blessing on his election and on his mission!

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