Karekin I, Catholicos

Karekin I, Catholicos
▪ 2000
(Neshan Sarkissian) 
      patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church who was credited with reinvigorating his church after the fall of the Soviet Union and with improving its relationship with the Roman Catholic Church; after spending time at a seminary in Beirut, Lebanon, he studied theology at the University of Oxford (1957–59). He was consecrated a bishop in 1964 and for the next 13 years led church dioceses in the U.S., Iran, and India; he was elected coadjutor-catholicos of Cilicia in 1977, and in 1995 he became the 131st supreme patriarch and catholicos of all Armenians (b. Aug. 27, 1932, Kessab, Syria—d. June 29, 1999, Echmiadzin, Armenia).

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