Bishop Markos Hovhannisyan
Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Ukraine
● General Information
Born in 1973 in the village of Bazhrashen, Shirak Province, Republic of Armenia. Baptismal name: Hrach.
1980–1990 - Secondary School No. 5, Holy Etchmiadzin.
1990–1996 - Gevorgian Theological Seminary.
2003–2006 - St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Institute, Moscow.
● Ecclesiastical Ranks and Ordination
1996 - Ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Anania Arabajyan.
2000 - Ordained a celibate priest by Archbishop Shahe Ajemian.
2005 - Received the four degrees of Archimandrite from bishop Arshak Khachatryan. Thesis: "Stone Inscriptions from an Ecclesiological Perspective."
2006 – Consecrated to the episcopate by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.
● Tenure
1996–1998 - Director of the Alex and Marie Manoogian Treasury at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
1998–2000 - Military chaplain in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia.
2000–2001 - Commandant of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
2001–2002 - Assistant to the Primate of the Armenian Diocese of New Nakhichevan and Russia.
2002–2005 - Pastor of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church in Riga.
2005–2006 - Locum Tenens of the Gegharkunik Diocese.
2006–2015 - Primate of the Gegharkunik Diocese.
2008 - Member of the Secretariat of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.
2009–2015 - Member of the Public Council of the Republic of Armenia.
2009–2015 - Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Armenia Round Table Inter-Church Charitable Foundation of the World Council of Churches.
Since 2015 - Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Ukraine.
