Scholarship in Cilician Armenia
St. Nerses of Lambron, (1153/54–1198) was an accomplished scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Tarsus in the region of Cilicia (now in Turkey) where Armenians had crowded from historic Armenia. Nerses is recognized for his important theological writings and for his participation in various councils that strove for unity between the Armenian and Byzantine churches and later between the Armenian Church and the Church of Rome. He died in 1198 just before Levon II of the Armenian Rupenid Dynasty was crowned the first king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia on January 6, 1199. This engraving of Nerses towering over his clerics is from his Commentary on the Twelve Holy Prophets.
St. Nerses of Lambron, (1153/54–1198) was an accomplished scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Tarsus in the region of Cilicia (now in Turkey) where Armenians had crowded from historic Armenia. Nerses is recognized for his important theological writings and for his participation in various councils that strove for unity between the Armenian and Byzantine churches and later between the Armenian Church and the Church of Rome. He died in 1198 just before Levon II of the Armenian Rupenid Dynasty was crowned the first king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia on January 6, 1199. This engraving of Nerses towering over his clerics is from his Commentary on the Twelve Holy Prophets.