Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
AVETIKH di EZINGHĀ (Jerznglatzī). - Called Kešis Oklū, dissident Armenian patriarch of Constantinople. Born in Tokat (vilayet of Sivas, in Asia Minor) in 1657; he was appointed abbot of St. James of Nisibis
(photo by the Soprintendenza all'Arte Medievale e Moderna della Campania) AVERSA - Altare con la Madonna fra i ss. Pietro e Paolo (sec. XVI) - Chiesa della Maddalena.and bishop of Erzingan in 1690. Having moved to Constantinople in 1701 as vicar of the Armenian patriarch Ephrem, he ended up replacing him in the see and began a policy of vexation toward his clergy and against the Catholics. But in the summer of 1703, after the decapitation of his protector the mufti and the accession of Sultan Ahmet III to the throne, A. was captured and remained in prison for over a year; then, thanks to the intrigues of his partisans, he ascended once again to the patriarchal see; deposed a second time, he ended up being sent to France by the French ambassador Ferriol. There he was locked up in the Bastille and later set free after making his profession of faith into the hands of the Archbishop of Paris. D. July 21, 1711.
BIBL.: M. Tapin, Le masque de fer, Parigi 1870; M. Brosset, Le prétendu Masque de fer ou Autobiographie du vert. d'Avetikh patriarche de Constantinople, in Melanges Asiatiques, Pietroburgo 1874, pp. 186-97; M. Ciamcian, Storia dell'Armenia, III, pp. 732-50.
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“AVETIKH DI EZINGHĀ (JERZNGLATZĪ).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 327. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/avetikh-di-ezingha-jerznglatzi.
