Draft:Basilio Talatinian

Basilio Talatinian, O.F.M. (1913–2015) was a Franciscan Armenian Catholic priest.

A survivor of the Armenian Genocide, his expertise in the Eastern Churches would see him invited to the Second Vatican Council as a peritus.[1] Among over 400 council periti, Talatinian was the only Armenian peritus. He attended all four sessions of the council.[2]

He was ordained in the Latin rite in 1938, and completed a Doctorate in Canon Law in 1942. He continued to teach canon law in Jerusalem for three decades.[3]

Talatinian published several works on the Eastern Churches, especially Armenia.[4]

Talatinian was buried in Jerusalem in 2015 at the age of 102.[5]

Selected publications

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De contractu matrimoniali iuxta Armenos: disquisitio historico-iuridica. Hierosolymis: Typis PP. Franciscanorum, 1947.

Due Popoli l’Armeno E Lo Hayano. [S.l.]: Liber Annuus Studii Biblici Franciscani, 1975.

Il Monofisismo Nella Chiesa Armena: Storia E Dottrina. Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1980.

See also

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Custody of the Holy Land. 2013. "World Day of Sick - Birthday of Father Basilio Talatinian 100 Years and Father Gabriel Baireyr 99 Ans." February 10. Photo. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctsterrasanta/26992006565/.

Terra Santa Edizioni. 2022. “Talatinian Basilio.” May 22. http://web.archive.org/web/20220522101054/https://www.tsedizioni.it/autori/basilio-talatinian/.

References

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  1. "First laymen are appointed to preparatory body for ecumenical council; U.S. priest also named. Catholic News Service - Newsfeeds, 17 October 1960. https://www.thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=cns19601017-01.1.69&srpos=1.
  2. “Index Peritorum.” 1980. In Acta synodalia Sacrosancti Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II. Indices. Typis polyglottis Vaticanis.
  3. "Fra Basilio Talatinian, 102 anni di vita offerta al prossimo." 30 Mar 2015. https://www.custodia.org/it/news/fra-basilio-talatinian-102-anni-di-vita-offerta-al-prossimo/. Archived link: http://web.archive.org/web/20240911234355/https://www.custodia.org/en/news/brother-basilio-talatinian-102-years-offered-life
  4. Masha Halevi. “Between Faith and Science: Franciscan Archaeology in the Service of the Holy Places.” Middle Eastern Studies 48, no. 2 (2012): 249–67. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23217102.
  5. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147314637/basilio_kerop-talatinian