Zaven I Der Yeghiayan of Constantinople

Zaven Der Yeghiayan (1920).

Zaven Der Yeghiayan (Զաւէն Տէր Եղիայեան, 8 September 1868 Mosul, Ottoman Iraq – 4 June 1947 Baghdad, Iraq) was Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople in 1913–22.[1] He was deported to Mosul during the Armenian Genocide.

Life

Zaven Der-Yeghiayan received his primary education in Baghdad. He continued his studies at the Armash Theological Seminary. He became bishop and then prelate for Diyarbakir and in 1913 he became patriarch of Constantinople.[1] The Ottoman government exiled him to Baghdad in 1916. In 1926 Zaven became director plenipotentiary of the Melkonian Institute in Cyprus. In 1927 he moved back to Baghdad. He is the author of My Patriarchal Memoirs.[1] This memoir gives readers a detailed eye-witness account of the Armenian Genocide and attempts by the Patriarch himself to stop it.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Balakian, Grigoris Balakian (2010). Armenian Golgotha : a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918. Translated by Balakian, Peter; Sevag, Aris (1st Vintage Books ed.). New York: Vintage Books. p. 443. ISBN 9781400096770. OCLC 773983790.
  2. ↑ Der Yeghiayan, Zaven (2002). Ghazarian, Vatche, ed. My Patriarchal Memoirs. Translated by Misirliyan, Ared. Barrington, RI: Mayreni. ISBN 978-1-931834-05-6. LCCN 2002113804. OCLC 51967085. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
Religious titles
Preceded by

Hovhannes Arsharouni		 Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople
1913–1922		 Succeeded by

Mesrob I Naroyan
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