Archbishop Emmanuel Dabbaghian, I.C.P.B. ( hy, Էմանուել Դաբանագյան; 26 December 1933 – 13 September 2018) was a Syrian-born

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hierarch. He served as an archbishop of

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from 26 January 2007 until his retirement on 9 October 2017.

Life

Archbishop Dabbaghian was born in the Armenian family in diaspora, in

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. After the school graduation, he subsequently joined the

Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar The Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar (french: Institut du Clergé Patriarcal de Bzommar) is an Armenian Catholic religious congregation of priests which was founded in 1750. They use the initials I.C.P.B. after their names. They were establishe ...

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

, where he made a solemn profession. He was ordained as

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on December 25, 1967, after studies in the

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with a

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in philosophy and theology. After his ordination to priesthood, he served in the different Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar institutions in Syria, Lebanon and Georgia and in the same time made a pastoral work for the Armenian Catholics. Also from 2003 until 2007 he served as a

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Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe The Armenian Catholic Ordinariate of Eastern Europe is an Ordinariate (quasi-diocese) of the Armenian Catholic Church (Eastern Catholic, Armenian Rite in Armenian language) for its faithful in certain Eastern European ex-Soviet countries without p ...

and responsible for the theological studies for the Armenian Catholics in

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. On January 26, 2007

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Dabbaghian was confirmed by Pope

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and on August 4, 2007

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to the

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as an archbishop of the vacant

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. The principal

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was Patriarch

Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni Nerses Bedros XIX ( hy, Ներսէս Պետրոս ԺԹ. Թարմունի) (17 January 1940 – 25 June 2015) was the patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church. He was the second son and the fifth of eight children born to Elias Taza and Josephine ...

, the Head of the Armenian Catholic Church. Archbishop Dabbaghian retired from office, because of reaching the age limit. He died in

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on September 13, 2018 at age 84, and was buried in the Monastery of

Our Lady of Bzommar Our Lady of Bzommar is a Marian shrine in Bzommar ( ar, بزمار), Lebanon. Bzommar is situated 36 km northeast of Beirut at an elevation ranging between 920m and 950m above the Mediterranean. It is part of the Caza of Keserwan. Bzoummar i ...

Bzoummar Bzoummar ( ar, بزمار; also spelled ''Bzommar'' or ''Bzemmar'') is a village in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon. It is northeast of Beirut, and has an elevation ranging between above sea level. Bzoummar's i ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dabbaghian, Emmanuel 1933 births 2018 deaths People from Aleppo Members of the Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar Pontifical Gregorian University alumni Archbishops of the Armenian Catholic Church Syrian people of Armenian descent 21st-century Eastern Catholic bishops