Yeghishe Tadevosyan


Yeghishe Tadevosyan is one of the most prominent Armenian painters of the 19th-20th centuries. He spent his childhood in the Mother See. After graduating from the Moscow Art School, he was appointed a teacher of painting at the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary.

Vahagn Demirchoghlyan


A student of the Gevorgyan Seminary, who is ordained a priest and serves in the Igdir church, independently achieves such successes in the field of atomic physics that amaze and amaze the greatest scientists in the field.

Archbishop Gabriel Aivazovsy


Archbishop Hovhannes Aivazovsky, being a Catholic priest, rebelled against the edict of Pope Zion of Rome concerning the Armenians, was persecuted and returned to the Armenian Apostolic Church. The skilled publicist and educator was the superintendent of the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary and played a role in improving the theological subjects taught there.

Spyridon Melikyan


Composer Spyridon Melikyan left behind symphonic and choral works. As a conductor, he raised Armenian choral art to a new level. As an ethnographer, he saved a great treasury of folk songs from oblivion. As a scholar, he examined the theoretical issues of Armenian music in a new light. The former seminarian’s entire life was a service to Armenian music and Armenology.

Hakob Anandyan


Hakob Manandyan was one of the great scientists who, by teaching at the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary, had turned that institution into the world's largest center of Armenology. Manandyan spoke more than ten languages, and taught history as well as various languages ​​at the seminary. He wrote more than 150 scientific works in Armenian, Russian, and German. After the seminary was closed, when the first state university was opened, Manandyan became the head of the history department, and then was elected rector of the university. He was one of the founding academicians of the National Academy of Sciences. When the scientist was reminded of his great merit, he replied that all this should be considered a tribute of gratitude to the seminary, where he spent his best years.

Grigor Ghapantsyan


Just three years after the closure of the Gevorgyan Seminary, the first state university of Armenia was opened. The vast majority of the teaching staff were former teachers of the seminary, and one of them was the linguist and Armenologist Grigor Ghapantsyan. In 1913, having rejected Nikoghayos Mar's offer to stay at the University of Saint Petersburg and work together, he returned to his homeland and entered the teaching staff of the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary. He immediately joined the group of Stepanos Malkhasyants, who was appointed Dean of the seminary, who was called upon to reform the educational programs of the seminary and write a new charter. He conducted his first serious studies at the seminary and published them in the journal "Ararat" of the Mother See. In 1918, with weapons in hand, he fought with Armenian clergy and scientists in the Battle of Sardarapat. He was the head of the Department of Linguistics of the newly opened State University, and the director of the Institute of Language of the newly established NAS. Some of the works written in Russian by the linguist who left behind a great scientific legacy have not been translated into Armenian to this day.

Stepan Malkhasyants


The prominent Armenologist, academician Stepan Malkhasyants is one of those students of the seminary who, after improving their education in European universities, returned to their native educational institution to teach and pass on the accumulated knowledge to the next generations. Moreover, Malkhasyants also headed the seminary, and during that period implemented radical reforms. He was elected a member of the Spiritual Council of Holy Etchmiadzin. Throughout his life, even during the years of atheism and Stalinist repressions, he maintained a strong connection with the Mother See.

Makar of Teghut


Makar I Catholicos of Teghut neither studied nor taught at the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary, but the seminary reached its most flourishing period during his reign. Makar was the first to update the educational programs, invite new teachers, and lay the foundation for the tradition of sending spiritual and secular graduates to prominent European universities to continue their education.

Gevork VI Chorekchyan


Archbishop Gevorg Chorekchyan was elected Catholicos of All Armenians during the most difficult times for the Armenian Church. He was able to implement huge reforms. Patriarch Gevorg VI Chorekchyan was also able to smooth over strained relations with the Bolshevik authorities and avoid new persecutions from Moscow.

Derenik Demirchyan


Derenik Demirchyan is one of the great Armenian writers who made his first literary attempts during his years of studying at the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary. Demirchyan is also one of the four alumni of the Vernata seminary founded by Hovhannes Tumanyan. His contribution to Armenian literature was great, the most significant of which is perhaps the historical novel "Vardanank", as well as the comedy "Kaj Nazar" and the drama "Yerkir Hayreni".

Catholicos Garegin Hovsepyan


Archbishop Garegin Hovsepyan was not only a student of the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary, but also led it during a difficult period. The great Armenologist and respected clergyman was one of the first students of the seminary to be ordained a celibate priest. He spent most of his life in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, was ordained a bishop, and received the rank of archbishop. He was elected Catholicos of Cilicia at the suggestion of his friend, Archbishop Gevork Chorekchian.

Manuk Abeghyan


Manuk Abeghyan is one of the few great scholars who not only studied at the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary, but also taught and directed it. The great Armenologist either wrote or conceived most of his monumental works during the seminary period. Abeghyan did not break off contacts with the Mother See until the end of his life. Moreover, he was also a member of the spiritual council.