Shenork I Kaloustian of Constantinople

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Archbishop Shenork I Kaloustian (in Armenian Շնորհք Գալուստյան) (27 September 1913 – 7 March 1990) was the 82nd Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople under the authority of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians. He was elected to the position in 1963 and served for 27 years as Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. He died in hospital in Yerevan in Soviet Armenia in 1990 after a fall during a visit to the church headquarters at Echmiadzin.


Religious titles
Preceded by

Karekin I Khachadourian
Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople
19631990
Succeeded by

Karekin II Kazanjian
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