Zaven Der Yeghiayan (Զաւէն Տէր Եղիայեան; 8 September 1868 in Mosul, Ottoman Iraq – 4 June 1947 in Baghdad, Iraq) was Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople in 1913–22. He was deported to Mosul during the Armenian genocide.
Life
Zaven Der-Yeghiayan received his primary education in Baghdad and continued his studies at the Armash Theological Seminary. He became bishop and then prelate for Diyarbakir. He became patriarch of Constantinople in 1913. The Ottoman government exiled him to Baghdad in 1916. In 1926, Zaven became director plenipotentiary of the Melkonian Institute in Cyprus. In 1927, he moved back to Baghdad. He is the author of My Patriarchal Memoirs. This memoir gives readers a detailed eyewitness account of the Armenian genocide and attempts by the Patriarch himself to stop it.
See also
References
- ^ Balakian, Grigoris Balakian (2010). Armenian Golgotha : a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918. Translated by Balakian, Peter; Sevag, Aris (1st Vintage Books ed.). New York: Vintage Books. p. 443. ISBN 9781400096770. OCLC 773983790.
- Der Yeghiayan, Zaven (2002). Ghazarian, Vatche (ed.). My Patriarchal Memoirs. Translated by Misirliyan, Ared. Barrington, RI: Mayreni. ISBN 978-1-931834-05-6. LCCN 2002113804. OCLC 51967085. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
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| Preceded by Hovhannes Arsharouni |
Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople 1913–1922 |
Succeeded by Mesrob I Naroyan |