His Excellency Raphael archbishop Minassian – the Archbishop of Armenian Catholics of Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Eastern Europe and the President of “Armenian Caritas” since 2011. Raphael archbishop Minassian received the high school education in the seminary of the Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar. In 1966, he continued his studies first at the Pontifical Levonian Armenian College and then at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he got the diploma of philosophy and theology and continued his studies at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome specializing in practical psychology.