Meghrig Parikian (

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: Մեղրիկ Բարիքեան) (3 January 1968 – 16 January 2021) was an Armenian

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who served in the

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under the jurisdiction of the

Holy See of Cilicia The Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia ( hy, Կաթողիկոսութիւն Հայոց Մեծի Տանն Կիլիկիոյ) is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church. Since 1930, the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilic ...

. Parikian was the Dean of the Armenian Theological Seminary in

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, Lebanon. Meghrig Parikian was also a musician and composer who had studied at Juilliard and the Mannes School of Music in New York.

Priesthood

Parikian was appointed the parish priest of St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church in

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in 2002. In 2014 he was ordained as a bishop, and then elected as Prelate of the Armenian Prelacy of Canada by the lay council on May 10, 2014.

Death

Parikian died of

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on January 16, 2021. His final

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was held on January 17, 2021, at St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Cathedral in Antelias, Lebanon. He was buried in the

Brotherhood Cemetery in the Catholicosate of Cilicia.

References

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