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Karekin I (Neshan Sarkissian) was born on 27 August, 1932 in Kesab, Mandatory Syrian Republic, is a Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1994-1999). Discover Karekin I's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Neshan Sarkissian
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Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 27 August 1932
Birthday 27 August
Birthplace Kesab, Mandatory Syrian Republic
Date of death 29 June, 1999
Died Place Vagharshapat, Armenia
Nationality Syria

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1932

Karekin I (Armenian: Գարեգին Ա Սարգիսյան) (August 27, 1932 – June 29, 1999) served as the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1994 and 1999.

1946

In 1946 he was admitted to the Theological Seminary of the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia and in 1949 ordained a deacon.

1952

In 1952, after having graduated with high honors, he was ordained a celibate priest and took the ecclesiastical name Karekin.

He joined the order of the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia.

1955

In 1955, he presented his doctoral thesis on the subject "The Theology of the Armenian Church, According to Liturgical Hymns Sharakans" and was promoted to the ecclesiastical degree of vardapet (archimandrite).

In next year he served as a member of the faculty of the theological seminary in Antelias, Lebanon.

1963

From 1963, he became an aide to Catholicos Khoren I in which function he had many ecumenical contacts.

1964

His ecclesiastical career advanced quickly: in 1963 he was elevated to senior archimandrite and on January 19, 1964, he was consecrated bishop by Catholicos Khoren.

1965

He studied theology for two years at Oxford University and wrote The Council of Chalcedon and the Armenian Church, published in 1965 in London.

Upon his return to Lebanon, he served as dean of the Antelias seminary.

1968

He served as observer at the Second Vatican Council, the Lambeth Conference of 1968 and the Addis Ababa Conference of the heads of the Oriental Orthodox Churches.

He lectured on theology, literature, history and culture at universities in Beirut, Romania, Moscow and Kotayyam (India).

1971

In 1971 he was elected Prelate of the Diocese of New Julfa in Isfahan, Iran.

1973

In 1973, he received the rank of archbishop and was appointed Pontifical Legate of the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenia's Holy Apostolic Church of America (in New York) and in 1975 its Primate.

1976

During his time in the United States, he took special care of the younger generation of Armenians and played a key role in the fundraising for Lebanon in 1976–1977.

1977

In 1977, he was elected Catholicos of the Catholicosate of Cilicia and served as Catholicos Coadjutor (Աթոռակից Կաթողիկոս) until the death of Catholicos Khoren I in 1983.

When fully installed as Catholicos Karekin II of the Great House of Cilicia, he lavished special attention on religious education, modernizing and promoting the theological seminary.

His pontifical visits took him to Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Cyprus, the United States and Canada, as well as Kuwait and the other Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

Another important facet of his Catholicosate were his ecumenical contacts.

Karekin II undertook ecumenical visits to Pope John Paul II of Rome, Archbishop George Carey of Canterbury, Coptic Pope Shenouda III of the Alexandria, the Swiss Reformed Churches and the Lutheran Churches of Denmark and Germany.

1983

Previously, he served as the Catholicos of Cilicia from 1983 to 1994 as Karekin II (Armenian: Գարեգին Բ).

Karekin, born and baptized as Neshan Sarkissian, was born in the Armenian-populated village of Kesab in northern Syria, where he attended the Armenian elementary school.

1988

He also made frequent visits to the Mother See of the Apostolic Church and expressed solidarity on a visit of the earthquake area in Armenia 1988 together with Catholicos Vazgen I.

1989

In 1989 he was elected honorary president of the Middle East Council of Churches.

Karekin wrote several books and booklets in Armenian, English, and French and published many articles and studies on theological, Armenological, philosophical, ethical and literary subjects in periodicals.

1994

After the death of Catholicos Vazgen I in 1994, Catholicos Karekin Sarkissian was elected Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians by a National Ecclesiastical Assembly of 400 delegates and hereafter became known as Karekin I, being the first Supreme Patriarch with that name.

Despite having been Catholicos of both, he was unable to reunite the two autocephalous Churches or reduce their overlap in other countries.

1998

In November 1998, Karekin I underwent cancer treatment in New York.

He appointed archbishop Karekin Nersessian, later Karekin II, as Vicar General.

1999

Karekin I died in June 1999.