Varoujan Hergelian

Archbishop Varoujan was born on 18 May 1946 in Anjar, Lebanon, as Boghos Hergelian.

After graduating from the Seminary School of the Catholicosate of Cilicia in 1967, he served as a teacher & hieromonk, Archimandrite and Bishop in Lebanon, Cyprus and Greece.

In August 1997, he was appointed Catholicosal Vicar of the Armenian Prelature of Cyprus as a bishop.

In March 1993 he established the Ardziv (in Armenian Արծիւ) literary, cultural, theological and social newspaper, still published today in Antelias, Lebanon on a weekly basis.

In October 1997 he established Keghart (in Armenian Գեղարդ), the Prelature's newsletter.