Behbud Mustafayev (born March 13, 1982,
Baku
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, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is the first
Azerbaijani Catholic priest in the history of the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
Life
He graduated from the secondary school at the Azerbaijan National Aviation Academy and after that worked as an officer of the Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 2008, Mustafayev converted to Roman Catholicism and was baptized in
Church of the Immaculate Conception in Baku. In 2011, he entered in the seminary Mary Queen of the Apostles in
Saint Petersburg
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.
On May 29, 2016, in the
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in St. Petersburg, his
ordination
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to deacon was held to serve in the
apostolic prefecture of Azerbaijan. His ordination was performed by the Archbishop of the
Archdiocese of the Mother of God,
Paolo Pezzi
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On May 7, 2017,
Pope Francis
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in
St. Peter's Basilica
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ordained Behbud Mustafayev to the priesthood.
References
External links
Бехбуд Мустафаев - первый в истории азербайджанец, ставший католическим священнослужителем + ВИДЕО
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1982 births
Azerbaijani Roman Catholic priests
Converts to Roman Catholicism
Living people