Hagop (or Jacob) Petros II Hovsepian (in
Armenian
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Յակոբ Պետրոս Բ. Յովսէփեան ) was born in
Aleppo
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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 ...
. He, after living a religious life in St. Antoine's convent at Kadicha for ten years, returned to his birthplace and Mgr. Ardzivian of Aleppo ordained him priest in 1720.
In 1722, because of many pursuits, bishop Ardzivian was exiled, priest Hagop with some friends bought their needs and with the remaining money, they bought the farm of Kreim (Lebanon) to build an Armenian convent there, and with the other part, they liberated the bishop Abraham from Rouad Island and brought him to Kreim.
In 1735, when he returned to Aleppo as a vicar, the priest Hagop succeeded to get a church through the Pasha and to return Ardzivian to Aleppo (1739). Arriving to Aleppo, Ardzivian ordained bishop the priest Hagop and two other priests and they, in their turn, consecrated him patriarch on November 26, 1740.
Staying in his eparchy of Aleppo for a while, bishop Hagop was obliged to take refuge in Kreim, near to Ardzivian. After serving Ardzivian as his assistant for 35 years, his successor was designated after his death, on October 14, 1740.
He spared the short period of patriarchate of four years to build the convent of Bzommar and to transfer the Patriarchate Seat from Kreim to there in 1749, as ordered the founder patriarch, who, during his lifetime, undertook the construction of the convent.
Hagop II became, with Abraham Ardzivian, the founder of both St. Antoine's order and convent of Kreim.
See also
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List of Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia
This is a list of the Armenian Catholic catholicos patriarchs of Cilicia, officially the Catholicos Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics. The Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia was established in 1740 following a schism within the Ar ...
References
External links
Biography on official site of the Armenian Catholic Church
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Syrian people of Armenian descent
Syrian bishops
Syrian monks
Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia
18th-century Eastern Catholic bishops
People from Aleppo
Syrian Christians