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Arutz Sheva, Israel
Oct 12 2012
Armenian Church Leader Dead at 93
Torkom Manoogian, the Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem is dead, Arutz
Sheva has learned.
By Scott Krane
Torkom Manoogian, the Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem is dead, Arutz
Sheva has learned. He died on Friday at the age of 93. Manoogian had
been in a coma since January after a stroke. The custodian of one of
Christendom's oldest sites, he helmed the Armenian Orthodox
communities in Israel, the Palestinian Authority-controlled
territories and Jordan.
Manoogian was born in a refugee camp for survivors of the Armenian
genocide located near Baquba in the Iraqi desert, studied theology at
the seminary of the Armenian patriarchate of Saint-Jacques in
Jerusalem and was ordained in 1939.
He was transferred to the United States in 1946 where he served as New
York's Armenian bishop and then-primate of the Eastern Diocese of the
Armenian Church of America.
With a Jerusalem presence dating back to the fifth century AD, today
there are 2,000 Armenians living in Jerusalem, however, in 1948 when
the Jewish state of Israel was founded there were 16,000.
A funeral for Torkom Manoogian will be held on October 22 at the
Armenian cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. `His successor will be
elected in 40 days, an appointment which needs the approval of Israel
and the king of Jordan,' according to the AFP.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/160828
From: Baghdasarian
Oct 12 2012
Armenian Church Leader Dead at 93
Torkom Manoogian, the Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem is dead, Arutz
Sheva has learned.
By Scott Krane
Torkom Manoogian, the Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem is dead, Arutz
Sheva has learned. He died on Friday at the age of 93. Manoogian had
been in a coma since January after a stroke. The custodian of one of
Christendom's oldest sites, he helmed the Armenian Orthodox
communities in Israel, the Palestinian Authority-controlled
territories and Jordan.
Manoogian was born in a refugee camp for survivors of the Armenian
genocide located near Baquba in the Iraqi desert, studied theology at
the seminary of the Armenian patriarchate of Saint-Jacques in
Jerusalem and was ordained in 1939.
He was transferred to the United States in 1946 where he served as New
York's Armenian bishop and then-primate of the Eastern Diocese of the
Armenian Church of America.
With a Jerusalem presence dating back to the fifth century AD, today
there are 2,000 Armenians living in Jerusalem, however, in 1948 when
the Jewish state of Israel was founded there were 16,000.
A funeral for Torkom Manoogian will be held on October 22 at the
Armenian cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. `His successor will be
elected in 40 days, an appointment which needs the approval of Israel
and the king of Jordan,' according to the AFP.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/160828
From: Baghdasarian