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CERL Thesaurus authority record for Ambroise Calfa
Associated with Khoren Nar Bey
Citation
Consortium of European Research Libraries, Thesaurus authority record cnp01305860, Ambroise Calfa (1826–1906): Armenian-born writer and philologist, brother of Coren Calfa (Khoren Calfayan); former member of the Mekhitarist Congregation of Venice; name variants including Nar Bey, Galfayan, Guy de Lusignan (adopted from 1878). Aggregates BnF, DNB, and VIAF cataloguing data.
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Khoren Nar Bey (c. 1831–1892) — also recorded as Khoren Kalfayan, Coren Calfa, and Khoren Nar Bey Kalfayan — was an Armenian ecclesiastical figure who became Archbishop of Constantinople. As part of the Armenian delegation, he was dispatched to Saint Petersburg in 1878 to deliver a memorandum to Tsar Alexander II requesting autonomy for the Armenian provinces, and served as translator to Mkrtich Khrimian at the Congress of Berlin. He is documented in the CERL Thesaurus as the brother of Ambroise Calfa.