Mikaël Antoine Mouradian

Mikaël Antoine Mouradian, I.C.P.B. (born July 5, 1961) is an Armenian Catholic hierarch in the United States. He has served as the second eparch (bishop) of the Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States of America and Canada since 2011.

Biography

Mikaël Mouradian was born in Beirut, Lebanon and ordained a priest for the Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar on October 24, 1987 by Bishop Grégoire Ghabroyan, I.C.P.B. Pope Benedict XVI named Mouradian as the eparch of Our Lady of Nareg in New York on May 21, 2011. He was ordained a bishop by Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni of the Armenian Catholic Church on July 31, 2011. The principal co-consecrators were Archeparch Boutros Marayati of Alep, Eparch Grégoire Ghabroyan, I.C.P.B. of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris, Archeparch Nechan Karakéhéyan, I.C.P.B. of Eastern Europe and Eparch Emeritus of New York Manuel Batakian, I.C.P.B.^[1][2]

In September 2021, following the death of Patriarch Krikor Bedros XX Ghabroyan, he participated in the Elective Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church convened by Pope Francis at the Pontifical Armenian College in Rome. He was part of the body of bishops that elected Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian as the new Patriarch of Cilicia.^[3]

Episcopal succession