Passport name: Mikheil Khachkalyan

Date and place of birth: 21.05.1970, Perm, Russian Federation, was raised in Tbilisi, Georgia. Father was Armenian, mother was German.

Received school education in Tbilisi, then served in the Soviet and Georgian Armies (1988-1993).

Worked at a shoe factory as designer.

Religious education: at the Seminary of Jesuit Congregation in Novosibirsk (1999-2000).

Higher education: Diocesan Seminary of St. Petersburg (2000-2003); Faculty of Theology of San Zeno, Verona and University of Soulkhan Saba of Tbilisi.

Priestly ordination: 21.11.2007.

In 2009 was appointed as parish priest of the Armenian Catholic community of Gyumri.

In 2010 was appointed as parish priest of the Armenian Catholic community of St. Gregory the Illuminator in Tbilisi.

Since 2016 has served as parish priest of Nor Khulgumo (Tambovka) village.

Speaks Armenian, Russian, Georgian and Italian.