Hovhannes Tcholakian (12 April 1919 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish-Armenian
Archbishop
In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...
of the
Armenian Catholic Church
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.
Tcholakian was born in
Istanbul
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and ordained a priest in Istanbul on 25 April 1943. He was elected archbishop on 23 May 1966 and consecrated on 16 January 1967. Between 1967 and 2015 he served as
Archbishop of Istanbul. In March 2015 the
Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni
Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni (born Pierre Taza; ) (17 January 1940 – 25 June 2015) was the patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church from 1999 until his death in 2015.
Biography
Pierre Taza was the second son and the fifth of eight children bor ...
accepted the resignation of Archbishop Tcholakian on grounds of age. He died in September 2016 at the age of 97.
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Catholic-Hierarchy
1919 births
2016 deaths
Archbishops of the Armenian Catholic Church
Clergy from Istanbul
20th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops
Turkish people of Armenian descent
Eastern Catholic bishops in Turkey
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