List of Katholikoi of Aghtamar of the Armenian Apostolic Church

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The heads ("Katholikoi") of the Catholicate of Aghtamar were:

  • David I. Thornikian (1113–1165?)
  • Stephanos I (1165? - † 1185/90?)
  • Anonymous (1185-1272)
  • Stephanos II. (? -1272)
  • Stephanos III. Sefedinian (1272-1296?)
  • Zacharia I Sefedinian (1296-1336)
  • Stephanos III. (1336? –1346)
  • David II (1346-1368?)
  • Zacharia II the Martyr (1369-1393)
  • David III by Aghtamar (1393–1433)
  • Zacharias III. by Aghtamar (1434–1464), 1460–1464 also (counter) Catholicos in Etschmiadzin (Vałaršapat)
  • Stephanos IV. (1464-1489)
  • Zacharia IV (1489-1496)
  • Atim I. (1496-1510)
  • Hovhannes (1510-1512)
  • Grigoris I of Aghtamar (1512–1544?)
  • Grigoris II the Younger (1544? –1586)
  • Grigoris III. (1586? –1612?)
  • Stephanos V (1612–?)
  • Martyros I of Moks (1660–1662)
  • Bedros † 1670
  • Stephanos IV. 1671?
  • Garabed 1677–
  • Hovhannes Tiutiuntshiu 1669
  • Thomas I. Doghlanbegian (1681–1698)
  • Avedis 1697
  • Sahak I. Ardzgetzi (1698)
  • Hovhannes II. Kedzuk (1699–1704)
  • Hairapet I. Paykhetsi (1705-1707)
  • Grigoris III. Kavaschetsi (1707-1711)
  • Hovhannes III. by Haiotz Dzoretsi (1720–?)
  • Krikor from Hisantsi
  • Ghazar I. of Moks
  • Grigor IV of Hizan
  • Paghtasar I of Bitlis (1735? –1736)
  • Nikoghaios (1736–1751)
  • Grigor (1751–1761)
  • Thovmas II (1761–1783)
  • Garabed (1783–1787)
  • Markos (1788-1791)
  • Theot'oros (1792–1794)
  • Mikayel (1796-1810)
  • Garabed † 1813?
Catholicos Khatchatur III. Schiroian (1864–1895)
  • Khatchatur I the Miracle Worker (1803-1814)
  • Hovhannes V. Schataketsi (1823–1843)
  • Khatchatur II of Moks (1844-1851)
  • Gabriel Shiroian (1851-1857)
  • Petros I. Bulbulian (1858–1864)
  • Khatchatur III. Schiroian (1864–1895)
  • Sedis vacancy
  • On July 28th / 10th August 1916, the Sultan confirmed the resolution of the Ottoman Ministry of Religion and Justice to merge the Catholics of Aghtamar and Sis (Cilicia) , to dissolve the Patriarchates of Constantinople and Jerusalem and to assign Jerusalem as the new seat of the "Catholicos Patriarch" of all Ottoman Armenian Sahag II

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archbishop Malachia Ormanian : Azgapatum (Ազգապատում, "National history") , 3 vol., Tp. S. Jakobean, Jerusalem 1913–1927, new edition Etschmiadzin 2001, 4th register, page 60 f.
  2. ↑ Patriarch Zaven Der Yeghiayan : My Patriarchal Memoirs , Mayreni Publishing, Barrington (RI) 2002, ISBN 1-931834-05-9 (the Armenian original published in Cairo in 1947), page 128