Key facts
- Native name
- Գարեգին Բ
- Church
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- See
- Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
- Appointed
- October 27, 1999
- Predecessor
- Karekin I
- Consecration
- 23 October 1983
- Rank
- Catholicos-Patriarch
- Born
- Ktrij Nersessian , ( 1951-08-21 ) 21 August 1951 (age 74) , Voskehat , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union
- Denomination
- Armenian Apostolic
- Education
- University of Vienna
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Armenia
- Place of birth
- Voskehat
- Occupation
- bishop
- Position held
- Catholicos of All Armenians
- Educated at
- Gevorkian Theological Seminary
- Languages spoken
- Classical Armenian
- Religion
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- Image
- Arménie 3.jpg
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- Commons category
- Karekin II
- date of birth
- 1951-08-21
- name in native language
- Սահակ Բ Խապայան
- consecrator
- Vazgen I
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Encyclopedic overview
Catholicos Garegin II (Armenian: Գարեգին Բ, also spelled Karekin; born 21 August 1951) is the Catholicos of All Armenians, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, since 1999. In 2013 he was unanimously elected the Oriental Orthodox head of the World Council of Churches for the next eight years.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karekin II” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.