Gomidas biography

Armenian priest, martyr and saint

Gomidas Keumurdjian (Armenian: Կոմիտաս Քէօմիւրճեան) (c. 1656- 5 November 1707), known as Cosma de Carbognano, was a priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church and later a convert to the Armenian Catholic Church.

He is regarded by the Catholic Church as a martyr and is venerated as a Blessed.

Gomidas biography in english

Biography

Gomidas Keumurdjian was born in Constantinople, the son of an Armenian priest. He studied under a learned Vardapet and, before being ordained a Deacon, was married at about the age of twenty and eventually fathered seven children.^[1] Like his father, he too became a parish priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church and was stationed at the Church of St.

George in Galata. His preaching attracted large audiences of not only Armenians, but also Ottoman Greeks and so many Muslims that Ter Gomidas had to regularly preach sermons in the Turkish language.^[2] He was also an author of Christian poetry and composed