André Bedoglouyan (February 18, 1920 – April 13, 2010) was a Lebanese-Armenian
hierarch
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of the
Armenian Catholic Church
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.
Bedoglouyan was born in
Zahlé, Lebanon and was ordained a priest on December 25, 1945, from the religious order
Institut du Clergé Patriarcal de Bzommar. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of
Patriarch Catholicos of Cilicia on July 24, 1971, as well as titular bishop of Comana Armeniae, and was ordained a bishop on September 19, 1971. Bedoglouyan retired as auxiliary bishop on November 5, 1994. Bedoglouyan died on April 13, 2010.
See also
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Holy See of Cilicia
The Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia () is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church. Since 1930, the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia has been headquartered in Antelias, Lebanon. Aram I is the Catholicos of C ...
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Catholic-Hierarchy
20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops
21st-century Eastern Catholic bishops
1920 births
2010 deaths
Members of the Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar
Lebanese Christian clergy
People from Zahle
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