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Bedros IV of Cilicia

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Bedros IV Sarajian (Armenian: Պետրոս Դ. Սարաճյան ) (1870 – 28 September 1940, Beirut) was Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church for six months in 1940. After his death, the position remained vacant until 1943 when Karekin I of Cilicia was elected.

Bedros was Armenian Prelate of Cyprus (1899–1905 and 1921–1940) and Armenian Prelate of Hadjin (1910–1915). Following the death of Co-Adjutor Papken Gyuluserian in July 1936, the 87-year-old Catholicos Sahak named Bedros Co-Adjutor Catholicos of Cilicia (1936–1940). He was eventually elected as Catholicos on 30 May 1940 and consecrated in the newly-built St Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias on 2 July.

Preceded bySahag II of Cilicia Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia
1940
Succeeded byKarekin I

Source: Avakian, Arra S. (1998). Armenia: A Journey Through History. The Electric Press, Fresno.


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