Nerses

Nerses (Old Armenian: Ներսէս) is an Armenian variant of Narses. With the addition of -ian and -yan, it becomes an Armenian family name like Nersesian and Nersisyan.

Nerses may refer to:

Catholicoi of the Armenian Apostolic Church

• Saint Nerses I or St. Nerses I, Catholicos of Armenia, also known as Nerses the Great (d. 373)
• Nerses II of Armenia, Catholicos of Armenia, (d. 557)
• Nerses III the Builder, Catholicos of Armenia, also known as Nerses the Builder (d. 661)
• Nerses IV the Gracious, Catholicos of Cilicia, also known Nerses the Graceful (d. 1173)
• Nerses V, Catholicos of Armenia (d. 1857)

Caucasian Albanian Catholicoi

• Nerses Bakur or Nerses I
• Three more catholicoi and one anti-catholicos, see List of Caucasian Albanian Catholicoi

Catholicoi-Patriarchs of the Armenian Catholic Church

• Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, current patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church

Other religious figures

• Nerses Balients, also Nerses Balienc or Nerses Bagh'on, a Christian Armenian monk of the early 14th century
• Nerses of Lambron, Archbishop of Tarsus

Political figures

• Nerses of Iberia, or Nerse of Iberia, 8th-century Georgian prince

Contemporary figures

• Nerses Yeritsyan, Armenian minister and public administrator
• Nercesse, Lebanese footballer

See also

• Narses (disambiguation)
• Narsai (disambiguation)
• Church of St. Nerses the Great, located in the town of Martuni in Nagorno-Karabakh
• Nersisyan School, Armenian language university in Tiflis, Russian Empire (now Tbilisi, Georgia

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