Bishop Hovakim Manukyan
Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Great Britain and Ireland
● General Information
Born in 1976 in the village of Voskehat. Baptismal name: Vardges.
1983–1993 – Voskehat Secondary School.
1994–1999 – Vaskenian Theological Seminary of Sevan.
1999–2000 – Gevorgian Theological Seminary.
2001–2002 – Diaconal School in Aarhus, Denmark, specializing in Social Theology.
2002–2004 – Moscow Theological Academy (Candidate of Theological Sciences).
● Ecclesiastical Ranks and Ordination
2000 – Ordained deacon by Archbishop Mesrop Grigoryan.
2001 – Ordained hieromonk by Archbishop Voskan Galpakian.
2006 – Received the four degrees of the rank of Archimandrite from Bishop Yeznik Petrosyan. Thesis: “Ecumenism in the 20th Century and the Armenian Church.”
2010 – Consecrated bishop by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.
● Tenure
2000–2005 – Secretary of the Inter-Church Relations Department of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
2004 – Member of the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Officers Network.
2004–2009 – Member of the Church and Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches.
2005 – Director of the Inter-Church Relations Office of the Mother See.
2005 – Member of the Board of Trustees of the Armenia Round Table Foundation of the World Council of Churches.
Since 2009 – Member of the Central Committee of the Conference of European Churches.
2012–2015 – Primate of the Diocese of Artik.
Since 2015 – Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Great Britain and Ireland.
