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
- Four 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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