![]() ![]() Opponents of reform slandered Dikranian in letters sent to Armenian Church authorities in the 1860s and 1870s. ![]() Those same efforts, however, had also earned Dikranian enemies among the provincial Armenian elite and their allies in the clergy, as unanticipated scrutiny accompanied his newfound notoriety. With their patronage, Dikranian enjoyed appointments to a number of desirable positions in both the capital and the provinces. His efforts in that field, which had begun in the 1840s, had won him the support of Armenian liberals in the Ottoman capital, Istanbul, who then used their influence with both the Armenian Church and the Ottoman imperial government to advance his career. Despite these challenges, he had made a name for himself as an author and activist, most notably in the arena of education. ![]() As an Armenian bishop from Diyarbakir, a largely Kurdish region in southeastern Anatolia, Dikranian found that trouble had made a habit of tracking him down. ![]()
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