Vrej Nersessian

Vrej Nersessian was the Curator of the Christian Middle East Section at the British Library, London, from 1975 to 2012.

Life

Born Vrej Nersessian in Teheran, he took the name Nerses on ordination in 1983 as a priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
He holds a doctorate in theology from King's College London, writes on the Christian Middle East, and is the author of a number of works on Armenian Christian art and Christianity, including Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art, The Bible in the Armenian Tradition, the Armenian Illuminated Gospel Books, and The Tondrakian Movement.
He is married and has two sons.