Babken I of Cilicia

Papken I. Gulesserian ( born March 23, 1868 in Aintab, † 1936 in Antelias ) was a " Coadjutor - Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia " of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

The son of Avedik and Sophia ( Nazarian ) Gulesserian went in the home town of Aintab to school and then entered into the Theological Seminary of Armasch in Izmit. In June 1895 he was ordained a priest and was built in October 1897 Wardapet, and later for two years abbot of the monastery Armasch. In 1909 he became the head of the Armenian Diocese of Angora (now Ankara) appointed and ordained a bishop. Half disease in 1914, he traveled to the USA and thus escaped the genocide of 1915-1918. He then taught several years of theology at the Seminary of the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem. In support of the aged Catholicos Sahag II of Cilicia Khabayan he was elected in the summer of 1928 and was ordained coadjutor in Aleppo on 26 April 1931 Catholicos. Above all his energy to reorganize the home sold Cilician Catholicosate is from 1930 owes in Antelias in Beirut.

  • Altorientalischer Bishop ( 20th Century)
  • Catholicos
  • Minister of the Armenian Apostolic Church
  • Abbot
  • Armenian clergyman (Ottoman Empire)
  • Born in 1868
  • Died in 1936
  • Man
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