Biography

	Ajemyan Shahen (Armen)
Armenian:	Աճեմյան Շահեն Արմենի
Russian:	Аджемян Шаген Арменович ;
Born:	24.07.1926 ; Aleppo, Syria
Died:	13.07.2005 ; Yerevan, Armenia
	Description:; Archbishop, public figure.

Was born on July 24,1926 in Aleppo, Syria.

Education

In 1938 graduated from the Mekhitarist college.
In 1945 graduated from the French college of Aleppo.
In 1947 graduated from the school-monastery of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia in Antelias.
In 1951 graduated from the Brussels State University.

In 1951-1960 was the ambassador in the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia.
In 1960-1994 was the ambassador of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
In 1975-1986 was the representative of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin in the World Council of Churches.
In 1978-1994 was the editor of the magazine "Syon".
In 1995 established the faculty of Theology of the Yerevan State University.

In 1951 became a doctor in Philological and Philosophical Sciences (Brussels).
In 1975-1985 was a member of the Supreme Spiritual Council.
In 1996 became an honorary doctor of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.

Ajemyan Shahen (Armen)

Armenian:	Աճեմյան Շահեն Արմենի
Russian:	Аджемян Шаген Арменович
Born:	24.07.1926 Aleppo, Syria
Died:	13.07.2005 Yerevan, Armenia
Description: Archbishop, public figure.