BISHOP MINAS PARVEZYAN

Bishop Minas Parvezyan is mentioned as the Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Holy Church in Georgia, from 1722-1723. (M. Ormanyan “Azgapatum” (National History), article 1931; also Arakel Grigori Babakhanian (commonly known as Leo) v.5, Yerevan 1936, pp. 459-460).

Bishop Minas Parvezyan wrote a letter to the Russian Tsar Peter I and asked for military intervention for the salvation of Armenia, but his request was declined.