Archbishop Karekin I Khachadourian (in

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Գարեգին Ա Խաչատուրյան) (6 November 1880, Trebizond – 22 July 1961,

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) was the 81st

Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (french: Patriarche de Constantinople, tr, Konstantinopolis Ermeni Patriği), also known as Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul, is today head of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople ( hy, Պատրիա ...

under the authority of the

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. He was born Khachik Khachadourian in Trabzon, taking the name Karekin on ordination. He assumed his duties as Patriarch on 16 March 1951, after he returned from serving in

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. 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.

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