Zaven I Der Yeghiayan
Zaven Der Yeghiayan (Armenian Զավեն Եղիայան)(Born Mosul, Ottoman Iraq 1868 - died Baghdad, Iraq 1947) presided as Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (1913–22).[1] He was the Patriarch during the Armenian Genocide.
Life
Zaven Der-Yeghiayan received his primary education in Baghdad. He continued his studies at the Armash Theological Seminary. He became bishop and then prelate for Diyarbakir and in 1913 he became patriarch of Constantinople.[1] 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.[1] This memoir gives readers a detailed eye-witness account of the Armenian Genocide and its attempts by the Patriarch himself to stop it.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Balakian, Grigoris Balakian ; translated by Peter Balakian with Aris (2010). Armenian Golgotha : a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918 (1st Vintage Books ed. ed.). New York: Vintage Books. p. 443. ISBN 9781400096770.
{{cite book}}:|edition=has extra text (help); Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Der Yeghiayan, Zaven (2002). My patriarchal memoirs (transl. from the Armenian by Ared Misirliyan ed.). Barrington (R.I.): Mayreni publ. ISBN 9781931834056. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
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