Karekin Khachaduryan

Archbishop Karekin I. Chatschaduryan ( Armenian Գարեգին Ա Խաչատուրյան , maiden name Haçik ; born November 6, 1880 in Trabzon , Ottoman Empire , † July 22, 1961 in Istanbul ), bourgeois Karekin Haçaduryan , was the 81st Armenian Apostolic Patriarch under the authority of Catholicos of Armenia and all Armenians .

He was baptized Haçik in Trabzon in 1880 and took his religious name Karekin when he became a priest. He received his priest training from 1898 at the monastery of Armasch near İzmit , where Armenian villages still existed at that time. In 1912 he became the chief clergyman of Arapgir and in 1914 the clergyman of the Armenians in Konya .

He was elected Patriarch on December 2nd by a large majority by the Türkiye Ermenileri Delegeler Meclisi and accepted his post with the oath of March 16, 1951 after he had returned from Argentina . During his term of office, the Istanbul pogrom fell , in which over 13 native Christians of various denominations were killed in Istanbul . The greatest work of Patriarch Karekin is the establishment of the Surp Haç Ermeni Lisesi theological school in Üsküdar . He also founded his own official gazette, the Şoğagat magazine .

He remained patriarch in Istanbul for ten years until his death. The funeral service on July 7, 1961 was headed by Catholicos Vasgen I of Echmiadzin in the Constantinople Patriarchal Cathedral in the Kumkapı district.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cumhuriyet Döneminde Patrikler ve Önemli Olaylar ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Vağarşag Seropyan, "Karekin Haçaduryan" Dünden bugüne İstanbul Ansiklopedisi , Tarih Vakfı, 1994. ISBN 975-7306-00-2 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Mesrob Naroyan	Patriarch of Constantinople of the Armenian Apostolic Church 1951–1961	Chenork I. Kaloustian