Oshagan Choloyan
Oshagan Choloyan (* 1947 in Aleppo , Syria) is the current Archbishop of the Eastern Prelature of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the USA ( Catholic of Cilicia ).
Choloyan began his training in Aleppo. In 1960 he entered the Theological Seminary of the Cilician Catholicate. In 1964 he was ordained a deacon and in 1967 by Bishop Karekin Sarkissian a celibate priest. This, meanwhile Catholicos Karekin II of Cilicia, ordained him bishop in 1994. Catholicos Aram I awarded him the rank of Archbishop in 1998. He studied from 1968 to 1970 at the American University in Beirut and 1974–1978 at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey. He taught at the seminary of the Cilician Catholicate and at Armenian schools in Beirut and Aleppo. From 1980 he worked as a delegate of the Catholicos in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates and was then elected prelate of the North American diocese.
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| SURNAME | Choloyan, Oshagan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Archbishop of the Eastern Prelature of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the USA (Catholic of Cilicia) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aleppo , Syria |