Hovhannes Tcholakian (12 April 1919 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish-Armenian Archbishop of the Armenian Catholic Church.
Tcholakian was born in Istanbul and ordained a priest in Istanbul on 25 April 1943. He was elected archbishop on 23 May 1966 and consecrated on 16 January 1967. Between 1967 and 2015 he served as Archbishop of Istanbul. In March 2015 the Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni accepted the resignation of Archbishop Tcholakian on grounds of age. He died in September 2016 at the age of 97.[1]
^"Former spiritual leader of Catholic Armenians of Turkey passed away".
and 5 Related for: Hovhannes Tcholakian information
HovhannesTcholakian (12 April 1919 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish-Armenian Archbishop of the Armenian Catholic Church. Tcholakian was born in Istanbul...
Armenian surgeon and scientist Hovhannes Abelian (1865–1936), Armenian actor Hovhannes Aivazovsky, Russian Romantic painter Hovhannes Avetisyan (1939–2000), Armenian...
Representatives (2001–2003) and Senate (since 2003), brain cancer. HovhannesTcholakian, 97, Turkish Armenian Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Istanbul (1967–2015)...
informed the Holy See, had accepted the resignation of Archbishop HovhannesTcholakian. Mons. Boghos Lévon Zékiyan was then elected Archbishop of Istanbul...
(eds) Davidian, Vazken Khatchig (2018). "Image of an Atrocity: Ivan (Hovhannes) Aivazovsky's Massacre of the Armenians in Trebizond 1895". Études Arméniennes...