Boghos Nubar ( Western Armenian : Պօղոս Նուպար ), also known as Boghos Nubar Pasha ( Պօղոս Նուպար Փաշա ; 2 August 1851 – 25 June 1930), was the son of Nubar Pasha , a three time governor of Egypt. A chairman of the Armenian National Delegation, and the founder, alongside ten other Armenian national movement leaders, of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) on April 15, 1906, becoming its first ever president, a position he held from 1906 to 1928.
21-759: In 1912, he was appointed by Catholicos Gevorg V to head the Armenian National Delegation . Nubar was born in Istanbul (capital of the Ottoman Empire ) in 1851. His father was Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar Pasha . He was educated in Egypt and France as a civil engineer. Worked on water works of Egypt and irrigation projects in Sudan. Nubar fought for the Armenian cause. As early as
42-483: A bishop Khoren Muratbekyan as new Catholicos of All Armenians as Khoren I of Armenia (in Armenian Խորեն Ա Տփղիսեցի Մուրադբեկյան). Gevorkian Theological Seminary Gevorkian Theological Seminary ( Armenian : Գևորգյան Հոգևոր Ճեմարան Gevorkyan Hogevor Č̣emaran ), also known as Gevorkian Seminary ( Armenian : Գևրգյան Ճեմարան Gevorkyan Č̣emaran , pronounced [gɛvɔɾkʰˈjɑn t͡ʃɛmɑˈɾɑn] ),
63-816: A priest (vartabed) in the Armenian Apostolic Church and consecrated as bishop in 1882. In 1874, he taught at the Gevorkian Theological Seminary in Etchmiadzin, until his appointment the following year as bishop of Artsakh (present-day Karabakh ) and later as assistant prelate in Alexandropol (present-day Gyumri) in 1878 and in Yerevan in 1881. He was assigned prelate and bishop of Astrakhan , Russia in 1886 and Armenian prelate of Georgia in 1894. In 1907 he
84-603: A safer venue. Catholicos of All Armenians Georeg V Surenyants's appeal to the Armenian people. May, 1918 With the establishment of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1920–1921 and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in 1922 made up of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, he refused to leave the position and encouraged the Armenian population to cooperate with
105-564: A temporary need. It was never returned to the church and is currently the State Central Archive of Armenia. On 1 November 1945 the seminary reopened. On 6 September 1945 educator and English language specialist Minas Minasian was appointed director. In 1951 the first nine students graduated. In 2001–2002 the Ministry of Education of Armenia granted the seminary the status of a Religious University. The academic council
126-630: Is a theological university-institute of the Armenian Apostolic Church opened in 1874. It is located in the town of Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin) within the complex of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin , Armenia . In May 1869 Catholicos Gevorg IV laid the cornerstone of the Gevorkian Seminary on the grounds of Etchmiadzin. The seminary was under construction from 1869–1874 while the Armenian Church negotiated its opening with
147-527: Is the governing body of the seminary. The council is headed by the Catholicos of All Armenians. The educational methods committee of the seminary has a consulting role. The members of the committee are selected through the initiation of the academic council, approved by the Catholicos. In November 2015, the cultural committee of the seminary was formed. Currently the seminary has the following chairs: The seminary offers bachelor, master and PhD degrees in
168-749: The Caucasus , without mentioning the 150,000 Armenians in the Russian Armies , about 50,000 Armenian volunteers under Andranik , Nazarbekoff and others, not only fought for four years for the Entente, but after the breakdown of Russia, they were the only forces in the Caucasus to resist the advance of the Ottoman Empire, whom they held in check until the Armistice was signed. They helped
189-640: The British in Mesopotamia by preventing the ... Boghos Nubar retired from politics in 1921 died in Paris in 1930. Boghos Nubar was awarded the Belgian " Ordre de Leopold " and Egyptian Medjidieh , Osmanieh and Nile Orders, honorary degrees and medals for distinguished services George V of Armenia George V of Armenia (in Armenian Գևորգ Ե. Սուրենյանց (Տփղիսեցի) (28 August 1847 – 8 May 1930)
210-527: The Catholicosate complex. After his death, the Armenian Church as well as all organized religions in the Soviet Union became subject to persecution and rigid control, particularly through Joseph Stalin 's orders. No new catholicos was elected for 2 years as the throne remained vacant from 1930 to 1932. However, when Stalin temporarily eased the pressure, the time was opportune for the election of
231-704: The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin was filled with massive numbers of refugees. Catholicos Gevork I and the director, Bishop Karekin Hovsepiants, decided to temporarily close the seminary in December 1917. On 28 June 1928, Catholicos Gevork V applied to the president of the Peoples Commissariat Council Sahak Ter-Gabrielian to reopen the seminary. A building was allocated, but the government confiscated it stating
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#1732773118427252-614: The Tsarist government. On 28 September 1874 the seminary building's completion was celebrated. On 5 October 1874 the Caucasus Commission told the Armenian Church that the tsar had approved the seminary charter and it was allowed to open. The seminary had its first graduates during the 1885–86 academic year. Graduates of the seminary included Komitas , a pioneering ethnomusicologist and arranger of church music. The seminary also prepared teachers for secular schools. During
273-550: The ambassador, repeatedly assertsthat the Armenians of Ottoman Empire in no way desire to bring up the question of independence or constitutional changes (regarding Armenian National Constitution). Their sole aim is to secure the reforms drawn up by Russia France and England and provided for in the Treaty of Berlin reforms which have remained a dead letter hitherto. In February 1914, the Armenian reform package passed. Yeniköy accord
294-679: The beginning of 1912 the Catholicos of Mother See of Echmiazin Gevork V had sent the Boghos Nubar to the Cabinets of Europe with a commission to demand administrative autonomy for Armenians in the Ottoman Empire . He has also been considered as one of the prominent Armenian figures in the Ottoman Empire. This proceeding was a step for Russian and French policy in Constantinople almost at the same moment on March 15, 1913. Boghos Nubar,
315-473: The first 43 years of existence, the seminary prepared 43 clergymen/teachers who in turn provided education for thousands of students. 20th century figures who graduated from the seminary include Catholicos Gevork Vl Chorekchian, Karekin l Hovsepiants (Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia), Ruben Ter-Minasian , Komitas , Avetik Isahakian , and Levon Shant . During and after the Armenian genocide ,
336-452: The new regime installed as an alternative safe haven for Armenians. He was also actively involved in building new churches in the Armenian diaspora , developing a network of religious institutions and schools and for admitting the four-voice religious music of composer Makar Yekmalyan into the church Mass. George V died at Etchmiadzin , Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic , in 1930 and is buried near Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin in
357-813: The non-representation of Armenians at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 . The letter includes a useful summary of the Armenian contribution to the allied war effort. Our volunteers fought in the French Foreign Legion and covered themselves with glory. In the Légion d'Orient they numbered over 5,000 and made up more than half of the French contingent in Syria and Palestine , which took part in General Allenby 's decisive victory. In
378-604: The survivors of the Armenian genocide . He presided over the Aid Committee for Armenian victims, refugees and wounded soldiers and their families. Aid was provided throughout Armenia as well as Turkey, Georgia and Russia. He was the presiding Catholicos when the First Republic of Armenia was established in May 1918. He supported the various military campaigns, refusing to relocate the catholicosate from Etchmiadzin to
399-527: Was a reform plan devised by the European powers between 1912 and 1914 that envisaged the creation of two provinces in Ottoman Armenia placed under the supervision of two European inspectors general, who would be appointed to oversee matters related to the Armenian issues. In January, 1919, The Times published a letter from Boghos Nubar (an Ottoman citizen) in which he protests, belatedly, about
420-503: Was assigned as assistant to the Catholicossate in Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and elected Catholicos of All Armenians in December 1911, a post he held for three decades until 1930. In October 1912, he advocated Russian intervention for Turkish Armenians. He was active in Armenian political affairs at very critical times and was part of the Armenian delegation headed by Boghos Nubar Pasha . He also organized relief efforts for
441-520: Was the Catholicos of All Armenians of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin from 1911–1930. He succeeded Catholicos Matthew II (in Armenian Մատթեոս Բ Կոստանդնուպոլսեց), who had died on 11 December 1910 after less than three years as Catholicos. Born in Tiflis , he studied between 1865 and 1868 at the classical gymnasium in his hometown and in 1872 was consecrated as
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