New Armenian Catholic Patriarch


Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan was elected Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians on July 24, 2015. He succeeds former Patriarch Nerses Pierre XIX Tarmouni, who died on June 25.

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Born in Aleppo in 1934, Patriarch Ghabroyan had been retired for two years prior to his election last week. He had been ordained a priest of the Institute of Patriarchal Clergy of Bzommar in 1959, at the age of 24. In 1977 he was ordained a bishop and appointed the Armenian Apostolic Exarch of France.

He stepped down as the Armenian Eparch of France in 2013, however his election as patriarch now pulls him out of retirement.

The Patriarch is head of the Armenian Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with Romeand whose center is in Lebanon. The Church uses the Armenian rite, and is estimated to have 1 million followers.

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