Arakel of Tabriz

[1] Arakel was born in Tabriz (called Davrezh in the Armenian of the time) in the 1590s.[1] He received his theological training at the seminary at Etchmiadzin, the seat of the Armenian Apostolic Church, where he was ordained a vardapet (celibate priest/archimandrite).[2] In 1636, he was appointed abbot of the monastery of Hovhannavank Monastery, a position he held for one year before returning to Etchmiadzin․[3] He was later sent on various mission to Isfahan, Amasya, Sivas, Urfa, Aleppo, Jerusalem, and Athens as a nuncio of Catholicos Pilippos.Notably, his work contains an account of the mass deportation of Armenians under the Safavid shah Abbas.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article about an Iranian historian is a stub.
Arakel Davrizhetsi. History of Armenia – Аmsterdam: Voskan Yerevanci Press, 1669.
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