School education began to spread among the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in the first half of the nineteenth century. While these new schools were considered to be secular institutions, this paper argues that the school education of the Ottoman Armenians had religious aspects as well. From 1824 to 1830, the patriarchate ordered each bishopric to establish schools. These schools were expected to be places where promising candidates for priesthood would be chosen and trained. In the newly established schools, instead of full-time teachers, many priests concurrently worked as teachers. It is owing to these priests that school education could spread in the first few decades. In the remote regions such as Eastern Anatolia, the patriarchate ordered the establishment of schools to the monasteries of that region, and dispatched a monk to the Southeastern Anatolia. In this way, as the schooling spread with the efforts of the clerics, the religious education remained an important part of the school education of the Armenians in the nineteenth century.

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