Hovnan Derderian
Hovnan Derderian (born 1 December 1957) is the youngest Armenian cleric to have been elevated to the rank of archbishop.
Life[]
Born Vahram Derderian in Beirut, he studied at the Antelias Seminary and the Seminary of the Holy See in Etchmiadzin, Armenia. Upon his graduation in 1980 he was ordained a celibate priest by Vazken I, Catholicos of All Armenians, taking the name Hovnan.[1]
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- 1957 births
- Living people
- Religious leaders from Beirut
- Lebanese people of Armenian descent
- Alumni of St Stephen's House, Oxford
- Bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church
- Lebanese Oriental Orthodox Christians