Armenian Church Canon Law Հայոց Եկեղեցական իրաւունքը Melik-Tangian

by Nerses Melik-Tangian

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Հայոց Եկեղեցական իրաւունքը Nikoghayos Melik-Tangian was born on March 19, 1866, in the village of Brnagot, near Sisian, in Siunik (southern Armenia). He received his elementary school in the village in 1876-1877, when he was admitted to the Gevorgian Seminary of Holy Echmiadzin. He graduated in 1886 and then taught in his home village for two years. He moved to Shushi (Artsakh) in 1888 and taught at the Diocesan School and then the Philanthropic Society School, until the closure of all Armenian schools in the Caucasus by the Russian government in 1896. Afterwards, he went to St. Petersburg to pursue higher education and studied at the Law School of St. Petersburg University. He particularly studied Armenian canon law, about which he would publish a seminal two-volume work, “Armenian Canon Law,” in 1903 and 1905. He graduated in 1900. Answering a spiritual call, he returned to Echmiadzin, where he was ordained deacon in the same year. In 1901 he was ordained vartabed and renamed Nerses. Khrimian Hayrig, who was then Catholicos of All Armenians as Megerdich I, noticed the energy and enthusiasm of the young priest and appointed him abbot of the monastery of Tatev. In that position, Very Rev. Fr. Nerses Melik Tangian had to confront the government decree of confiscation of the properties of the Armenian Church in 1903, which generated strong resistance and demonstrations throughout the Caucasus headed by the Church and the political parties. Afterwards, he showed his talents of l

• Publisher: Holy Etchmiadzin
• Year: 2011
• Condition: Fair

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