Sebouh Chouldjian
Archbishop Sebouh Chouldjian is the primate of the Diocese of Gougark of the Armenian Apostolic Church
Archbishop Sebouh Chouldjian (24 March 1959 – 19 November 2020, born Haik Sarkis Chouldjian) was the metropolite of the Diocese of Gougark of the Holy Armenian Apostolic Church.
Biography
Haik Chouldjian was born on 24 March 1959 in Malatya, Turkey. He received his primary education at the Nersisian College of Istanbul. In 1969, his family resettled in Soviet Armenia, in the city of Gyumri, where he continued and finished his primary education.
In 1978 he entered the Gevorkian Theological Seminary at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1985, by the Grand Sacristan of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Archbishop Hoosik Santourian. He successfully defended his final thesis entitled "The Translation Works of Lukas of Kharpert" in March 1986. Upon his graduation from the seminary he was appointed to serve in the Secretariat of the Pontifical Administration.
He was ordained as a celibate priest by Archbishop Nerses Pozapalian on 7 June 1987, the Feast of Pentecost, and given the priestly name Sebouh. Following his ordination, he continued his service in the Pontifical Administration.
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