ARKA News Agency
July 13 2005
DEAN OF YSU DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY DIES IN ARMENIAN
YEREVAN, July 13. /ARKA/. Dean of the Department of Theology, Yerevan
State University (YSU), Archbishop Shahe Ajemyan has died after a
long disease, at the age of 78. A joint obituary of the Holy See of
Echmiadzin, RA Ministry of Education and Science and Yerevan State
University says that Archbishop Shahe Ajemyan was born in Aleppo,
Syria, in 1926. He received primary education at the Haygazyan and
Mkhitaryan gymnasiums. In 1947 he took monastic vows. In 1947-1950,
Ajemyan took literature and philosophy courses at the University of
Brussels. In 1965-1994, he was a member of the Saint James
congregation in Jerusalem. In 1982, to study bible translation he
founded an Armenian Bible Center of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
In 1994, Archbishop Ajemyan came to Armenia, where he was appointed
head of the YSU Department of Theology.
Sahe Ajemyan is known for his activities as a scholar and teacher. He
is the author of a number of papers. According to the obituary, the
death of Archbishop Shahe Ajemyan is a great loss for the Holy See of
Echmiadzin and Yerevan State University. P.T. -0–