Passport name: Mikheil Khachkalyan<\/p>\n
Date and place of birth: 21.05.1970, Perm, Russian Federation, was raised in Tbilisi, Georgia. Father was Armenian, mother was German.<\/p>\n
Received school education in Tbilisi, then served in the Soviet and Georgian Armies (1988-1993).<\/p>\n
Worked at a shoe factory as designer.<\/p>\n
Religious education: at the Seminary of Jesuit Congregation in Novosibirsk (1999-2000).<\/p>\n
Higher education: Diocesan Seminary of St. Petersburg (2000-2003); Faculty of Theology of San Zeno, Verona and University of Soulkhan Saba of Tbilisi.<\/p>\n
Priestly ordination: 21.11.2007.<\/p>\n
In 2009 was appointed as parish priest of the Armenian Catholic community of Gyumri.<\/p>\n
In 2010 was appointed as parish priest of the Armenian Catholic community of St. Gregory the Illuminator in Tbilisi.<\/p>\n
Since 2016 has served as parish priest of Nor Khulgumo (Tambovka) village.<\/p>\n
Speaks Armenian, Russian, Georgian and Italian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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