Garegin

Garegin (Armenian : Գարեգին), also pronounced Karekin (in Western Armenian), may refer to :

Religious figures

Armenian Catholicoi
  • Garegin I or Karekin I (1932-1999), a Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, first as Catholicos Garegin II of the Holy See of Cilicia (1983-1994) and then as Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin I of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1995-1999)
  • Garegin II or Karekin II (born 1951), Catholicos of All Armenians at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church
  • Garegin I (Cilicia) or Karekin I (Cilicia) (1867-1952), a Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 1943 to 1952
Armenian Patriarchs

Given name

Garegin

(Mostly used in Eastern Armenian)

  • Garegin Khachatryan (1975–1995), an Armenian sculptor, artist and freedom fighter
  • Garegin Nzhdeh (1886-1955), an Armenian statesman, fedayee, political thinker, revolutionary militant leader

Karekin

(Mostly used in Western Armenian)

  • Karekin Arutyunov (1964), Ukrainian politician
  • Karekin Deveciyan (1868–1964), Turkish-Armenia zoologist
  • Karekin Khajag (born 1867–1915), Armenian journalist
  • Karekin Pastermadjian, (born 1872–1923), Armenian politician
  • Karekin Simonian (born 1932), referee
  • Karekin Yarian, author and social activist from San Francisco

See also

  • Karekin I (disambiguation)
  • Karekin II (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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