Bedros Parian was born to a poor family of noble origins in 1873 in the village of Pingian (Armenian: Բինկեան, now Adatepe) near the town of Akn in the Harput Vilayet.

[1] After graduating, he joined a naval institute where he found other sympathetic youth and formed an Armenian nationalist group called "Syunik".

On his intelligence missions, he would wear a fez and peasant clothes to avoid attracting the attention of the Ottoman secret police and paid nationals.

During the Hamidian massacres, Bedros Parian lost his parents which would make him pursue the national movement even more staunchly.

But before he could even go into the bank, a bullet pierced through one of the grenades attached to his chest, causing an explosion which killed him instantly.