Karekin I Khachadourian of Constantinople

Archbishop Karekin I Khachadourian (in Armenian Գարեգին Ա Խաչատուրյան) (6 November 1880, Trebizond – 22 July 1961, Istanbul) was the 81st Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople under the authority of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians. He assumed his duties on 16 March 1951, after he returned from exile in Argentina. He established the Tbrevank school in 1953, a boarding school which also provided the education for the future Armenian priests. He encouraged the Armenians to send their children to the Tbrevank school, the only school that was able to provide education in Armenian in Turkey at the time, as all Armenian schools in the Turkish countryside were closed and the law prohibited the establishment of new Armenian schools.[1]

Religious titles
Preceded by

Mesrob I Naroyan		 Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople
1951–1961		 Succeeded by

Shenork I Kaloustian
This article is about Karekin I Patriarch of Constantinople. For Karekin I Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (1995–1999) who previously served also as Karekin II, Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia (1983–1994), see Karekin I. For Karekin I Hovsepian Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia, see Karekin I (Cilicia).

References
  1. Törne, Annika (2019-11-05). Dersim – Geographie der Erinnerungen: Eine Untersuchung von Narrativen über Verfolgung und Gewalt (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 148–149. ISBN 978-3-11-062771-8.
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