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    PRESS RELEASE
    Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Information Services
    Address: Vagharshapat, Republic of Armenia
    Contact: Rev. Fr. Ktrij Devejian
    Tel: (374 1) 517 163
    Fax: (374 1) 517 301
    E-Mail: [email protected]
    August 25, 2004

    New Appointment in the Mother See

    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.

    * * *
    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.
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