Karekin I (Cilicia)

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Birth name Garegin Hovsepian
Birthplace Khachisar
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Birth date 17 December 1867
Lived in Ejmiatsin, Antelias, Nor Nakhichevan
Resides in Antelias
Death place Antelias
Death date 1952/06/21
Death year 1952
Positions Catholicos
Religion Armenian Apostolic
Languages Armenian
Ethnicities Armenian
Dialects Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian, Karabakh Armenian

Karekin I (Armenian: Գարեգին Ա. Յովսէփեանց) (17 December 1867 in Khachisar (now Chardakhlu), Artsakh – 21 June 1952 in Antelias, Lebanon) was a scholar of Armenian art and Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 1943 to 1952.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karekin_I_(Cilicia) for more info.