Armenian Apostolic Holy Church The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

Bishop Tiran Petrosyan (baptismal name Artur) was born on February 23, 1981, in Yerevan. 

From 1987 to 1997, he received his primary education at № 20 Russian Secondary School named after Dzerzhinski. 

In 1997, he entered the Vaskenian Theological Academy at Lake Sevan. 

In 2001, he was ordained to the diaconate by His Eminence Archbishop Mikael Ajapahian. 

In 2002, he continued his studies at the Gevorkian Theological Seminary.

In 2003, he graduated from the Seminary and was appointed to serve in the Chancellery, as a Chairman of the Letters Department. 

On November 23, 2003, he was ordained as a celibate priest by His Eminence Archbishop Davit Sahakyan. 

In 2004, he was the staff-bearer of His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians. 

In 2005, with the invitation of the Bishop’s Synod of Austria, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology (Chair of The Theory of Theology and  Liturgical Studies) at the University of Vienna. 

In 2009, he defended his thesis at the same University, receiving a Doctorate in Catholic Theology. 

In 2009, with the Blessings of His Holiness, he returned to the Mother See and assumed the position of Vice-Dean of the Gevorkian Theological Seminary. At the same time, he taught Ritual Theology and Patristics at the Seminary. 

In 2010, he was appointed as the Dean of the Gevorkian Theological Seminary. 

In November 2010, with the Blessings of His Holiness Karekin II, he has been appointed to serve in the Armenian Diocese of Germany. 

From 2010 to 2012, he served as a spiritual pastor in Southern Germany (Munich and Nuremberg). 

In 2012, he also assumed the duties of being the spiritual pastor at the St. Hakob Church (Geneva) of the Armenian Diocese of Switzerland. 

In January 2013, by the Order of the Catholicos of All Armenians; Fr. Tiran was appointed to serve as the Acting Pontifical Legate of Central Europe and Sweden. 

On October 05, 2013, he defended his doctrinal thesis entitled “Theology of the 7 Sacraments by Gregory of Tatev: Historical-Critical Analysis”, and received the rank of Archimandrite (Vardapet) by His Eminence Archbishop Mikael Ajapahian. 

Since January 2013, he is the Pontifical Legate of Central Europe. 

From 2013 to 2017, Rev. Fr. Tiran Petrosyan was a member of the Faith and Order Committee of the World Council of Churches; presented the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin in Lausanne Orthodox Initiative; as well as, he is a member of the Council of Churches of Austria, and the Council of Eastern Orthodox Churches of Austria. 

In 2016, Father Tiran was a consultant member of the Armenian Studies Committee of the Department of Byzantine Studies of the University of Vienna. 

On May 12, 2019, he was consecrated as a Bishop by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.

On July 24, 2019, by the Pontifical Order of the Catholicos of All Armenians; His Grace Bishop Tiran Petrosyan was appointed to serve as the Pontifical Legate of Central Europe and Sweden.