Karekin I
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His Holiness Karekin I Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians |
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| Church | Armenian Apostolic Church |
| See | Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin |
| Installed | 1994 |
| Term ended | 1999 |
| Predecessor | Vazgen I |
| Successor | Karekin II |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Neshan Sarkissian |
| Born |
August 27, 1933 Kesab, Syria |
| Died | June 29, 1999 (aged 65) Vagharshapat, Armenia |
| Buried | Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin |
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His Holiness Karekin II Catholicos of Cilicia |
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| Church | Armenian Apostolic Church |
| See | Holy See of Cilicia |
| Installed | 1983 |
| Term ended | 1994 |
| Predecessor | Khoren I |
| Successor | Aram I |
Karekin I (Eastern Armenian pronunciation: Garegin I) (Armenian: Գարեգին Ա. Սարգիսյան) (August 27, 1933 – June 29, 1999), served as the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1994 and 1999. 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 Kesab, Syria, where he attended the Armenian elementary school. In 1946 he was admitted to the Theological Seminary of the Armenian Catholicate of Cilicia and in 1949 ordained a deacon. In 1952, after having graduated with high honors, he was ordained a celibate priest and renamed Karekin. He joined the order of the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia.
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. In next year he served as member of the faculty of the theological seminary in Antelias, Lebanon. 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 seminary.
From 1963, he became an aide to Catholicos Khoren I in which function he had many ecumenical contacts. 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).
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