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This is a list of Catholicoi of Armenia: head bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church. His Holiness, the Catholicos of Armenia and of All Armenians (plural Catholicoi, due to its Greek origin) is the head bishop of Armenias dominant church, the Armenian Apostolic Church. ...
A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ...
The Armenian Apostolic Church, sometimes incorrectly called the Armenian Orthodox Church is the worlds oldest national church and one of the original churches, having been founded in 301. ...
Catholicoi of Armenia
Apostolic Era unknown... Thaddeuss Lee Eng Han: Anglo Chinese School Independent Musically gifted. ...
Michelangelos The Last Judgement shows Saint Bartholomew holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin. ...
Sophene Era unknown...
Arsacid Dynasty (from 301 to 428 the episcopal office is hereditary) The cathedral The church of St. ...
The Arsacid Dynasty ruled Persia. ...
Syrians descent Saint Gregory the Illuminator (alternate: Gregory the Wonderworker, Armenian: Gregor Lusarovitch, Greek: Gregarios Phoster or Photistes), the founder and patron saint of the Armenian Apostolic Church, was born about 257 AD. Saint Gregory He belonged to the royal line of the Arsacid Dynasty, being the son of a certain Prince...
Ashishatts Dynasty Arsacid Dynasty The Arsacid Dynasty ruled Persia. ...
- Nerses I the Great (353-373)
Albaniosid Dynasty - Shahak I (373-377)
- Zaven (377-381)
- Aspuraces I (381-386)
Arsacid Dynasty The Arsacid Dynasty ruled Persia. ...
Syrians descent Isaac of Armenia, or Sahak, Catholicos (or Patriarch) of Armenia (338-439), otherwise known as Isaac the Great and sometimes as Parthev owing to his Parthian origin. ...
- Brkisho (428-232)
- Samuel (432-437)
Non-Hereditary Bishop
Dvin era 452-927 - Melitus (452-456)
- Moses I (456-461)
- St. Kyud (461-478)
- St. John I (478-490)
- Papken I (490-516)
- Samuel I (516-526)
- Mushe I (526-534)
- Sahak II (534-539)
- Christopher I (539-545)
- Ghevond (545-458)
- Nerses II (548-557)
- John II (557-574)
- Moses II (574-604)
- Abraham I (607-615)
- Gomidas (615-628)
- Christopher II (628-630), died aft. 630
- Ezra (630-641)
- Nerses III the Builder (641-661)
- Anastasius (661-667)
- Israel (667-677)
- Sahak III (677-703)
- Elias (703-717)
- St. John III the Philosopher (717-728)
- David I (728-741)
- Dertad I (741-764)
- Dertad II (764-767)
- Sion (767-775)
- Isaiah (775-788)
- Stephen I (788-790)
- Joab (790-791)
- Solomon (791-792)
- George I (792-795)
- Joseph I (795-806)
- David II (806-833)
- John IV (833-855)
- Zacharias I (855-876)
- George II (877-897)
- St. Mashdotz (897-898)
- John V the Historian (898-929)
- Stephen II (929-930)
- Theodore I (930-941)
- Yeghishe (941-946)
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Arghina era 947-992 - Ananias (949-968)
- Vahan (968-969)
- Stephen III (969-972)
- Khachig I (973-992)
Ani era 992-1058 - Sarkis I (992-1019), d. aft. 1019
- Peter (1019-1058)
During this time the see was transferred to Cilicia, from 1058 till 1441 (see Armenian Catholicos of Cilicia for continued succession). Ani, Church of Saint Gregory and Citadel Ani, known to Romans as Abnicum, is a ruined capital of medieval Armenia, situated in Turkey, province of Kars, immediately south from the Turko-Armenian frontier, at an altitude of 4390 ft. ...
In ancient geography, Cilicia (Ki-LIK-ya) formed a district on the southeastern coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), north of Cyprus. ...
Events March 17 - King Lulach I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and rival Malcolm Canmore, who later becomes King of Scotland as Malcolm III of Scotland. ...
This page is about the year 1441. ...
This is a list of Armenian Catholicoi of Cilicia. ...
Catholicoi of the Holy See of St. Echmiadzin and All Armenians
Second Echmiadzin era 1441-present - Giragos (1441-1443)
- Gregory X (1443-1465)
- Aristaces II (Coadjutor) (1465-1469)
- Sarkis II the Relic-Carrier (1469-1474)
- John VII the Relic-Bearer (1474-1484), d. 1506
- Sarkis III the Other (1484-1515)
- Zacharias II (1515-1520)
- Sarkis IV (1520-1536)
- Gregory XI (1536-1545)
- Stephen V (1545-1567)
- Michael (1567-1576)
- Gregory XII (1576-1590)
- David IV (1590-1629), d. 1633
- Moses III (1629-1632)
- Philip (1633-1655)
- Jacob IV (1655-1680)
- Eliazar (1681-1691)
- Nahabed (1691-1705)
- Alexander I (1706-1714)
- Asdvadzadur (1715-1725)
- Garabed II (1725-1729)
- Abraham II (1730-1734)
- Abraham III (1734-1737)
- Lazar (1737-1751)
- Minas (1751-1753)
- Alexander II (1753-1755)
- Sahak V (elected but never consecrated) (1755)
- (vacant 1755-1759)
- Jacob V (1759-1763)
- Simeon (1763-1780)
- Luke (1780-1799)
- Joseph (II)(elected but never consecrated) (1800), d. 1801
- David V (1801-1807), opposed by...
- Daniel (II) (1802-1808)
- Yeprem (1809-1830), d. 1835
- John VIII (1831-1842)
- Nerses V (1843-1857)
- Matthew I (1858-1865)
- George IV (1866-1882)
- (vacant 1882-1885)
- Magar (1885-1891)
- Mgrdich (1892-1907)
- Matthew II (1908-1910)
- George V (1911-1930)
- (vacant 1930-1932)
- Khoren (1932-1938)
- (vacant 1938-1945)
- George VI (1945-1954)
- Vasken (1955-1994)
- Karekin I (1995-1999)
- Karekin II (1999-present)
The cathedral The church of St. ...
Vazgen I , originally Levon Garabed Baljian, Catholicos Vazgen (1908 - 1994), was an Armenian (Romanian-born) prelate. ...
Catholicos Karekin successively headed the two leading jurisdictions in the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Catholicosate of Cilicia as coadjutor from 1977 then Catholicos Karekin II from 1983 to 1995, and then, as Catholicos Karekin I, from 1995 to his death in 1999 the Catholicosate of Echmiadzin. ...
His Holiness Catholicos Karekin II (in Eastern Armenian, Garegin) is the current head of the Holy Armenian Apostolic Church. ...
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