Sahak II of Cilicia

His Holiness Sahag II Khabayan (Armenian Սահակ Բ Խապայան ( Եղեգցի ). Born March 25, 1849 in Harput, † 1939 in Antelias ) was the " Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia " of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Gabriel ( Christian name ) Khabayan studied in Jerusalem and Constantinople Opel and worked as a priest in eastern Turkey and in Jerusalem. In 1903 he was elected Catholicos of Cilicia in Sis and consecrated. In the genocide of the Armenians in 1915, he was forced to settle in Jerusalem. As 1916/17 be Catholicossate and the two Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople and Jerusalem, Opel was dissolved by state law in favor of a short-lived Catholicosate all Ottoman Armenians based in Jerusalem, he took over his cathedra, but was banished in 1917 to Damascus. In 1918 he returned to Cilicia and tried to resettle its historical Catholicosate in Adana. After the French withdrawal from Cilicia and its annexation to the Kemalist Turkey in 1921, he moved first to Aleppo and later in Lebanon ( Antelias ) around. To assist in its 1931 Papken I. Gulesserian († 1936) was appointed Catholicos Coadjutor.