are known as catholicos-patriarchs. In the Armenian Church there are two catholicoi: the supreme catholicos of Ejmiadzin and the catholicos of Cilicia....
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Catholicos is Karekin II. The Catholicos is often referred to both by the church and the media as the Armenian Pontiff. Historically, the Catholicos was...
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The Catholicos of India formerly the Catholicos of the East, is an ecclesiastical office within the Syriac Orthodox Church. He is the Catholicos, spiritual...
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Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (section List of Catholicos of the East of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church)
(1975–1991), also Catholicos of the East Mathews II (1991–2005), also Catholicos of the East Didymos I (2005–2010), also Catholicos of the East Paulose...
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Catholicos-Patriarch has been the title of the heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1010. The first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia was Melkisedek...
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Bishop of Caesarea. Its Catholicos was represented at the First Council of Nicea (325). St. Vrtanes I, the third Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic...
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Baselious Marthoma Mathews II, Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan on 29 April 1991, becoming the Sixth Catholicos in Malankara and 89th Successor...
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Catholicoi called Karekin: Karekin I (1932–1999), Catholicos from 1994 to 1999 Karekin II (1951- ) Catholicos from 1999 - present Karekin I (Cilicia) (1943–1952)...
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Karekin I (redirect from Catholicos Karekin II of Cilicia)
1999) served as the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1994 and 1999. Previously, he served as the Catholicos of Cilicia from 1983 to...
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the same bishop holding two offices of Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan. The term "Catholicos" is derived from the Greek word Katholikos...
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List of Armenian catholicoi of Cilicia (redirect from Armenian Catholicos of Cilicia)
is located in Antelias, Lebanon. The Catholicos of Armenia and All Armenians claims sovereignty over the Catholicos of Cilicia, though the latter operates...
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Vazgen I (redirect from Catholicos Vazgen)
Կարապետ Աբրահամի Պալճյան; September 20, 1908 – August 18, 1994) was the Catholicos of All Armenians between 1955 and 1994, for a total of 39 years, the 4th...
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Baselios Marthoma Paulose II (redirect from His Holiness Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II Catholicos of the East & Malankara Metropolitan)
as the successor to the Catholicos of the East on 27 September 2006. Paulose Mar Milithios was enthroned as the new Catholicos of the East and Malankara...
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Karekin II (redirect from Catholicos Garegin II of Armenia)
Catholicos Garegin II (Armenian: Գարեգին Բ, also spelled Karekin; born 21 August 1951) is the Catholicos of All Armenians, the supreme head of the Armenian...
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Aram I (redirect from Catholicos Aram I)
faulted it for its unecumenical language. Baselios MarThoma Didymos I, the Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan (Primate of the Malankara Orthodox...
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Baselios Geevarghese II (redirect from Catholicos Moran Mar Baselios Geevarghese II)
Vattaserril Geevarghese Mar Dionysius installed him as the Catholicos of the East, succeeding Catholicos Baselius Geevarghese I, who had died in the previous...
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Baselios Augen I (redirect from Catholicos Moran Mar Baselios Augen I)
Malankara Metropolitan, the fourth Catholicos of the East in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and the first Catholicos of the East in the Malankara Syriac...
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Baselios Thomas I (redirect from Catholicos baselios)
H.B Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I (born 22 July 1929) is a Syriac Orthodox Catholicos of India (Maphrian) and head of the Jacobite Syrian Christian...
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This is a list of Catholicos Patriarchs of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics. The Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia was established in 1740 following...
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December 1928) popularly known as Vallikkattu Bava, he was the second Catholicos of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. He was installed in the Apostolic...
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his Episcopal consecration. The official form of address of the Catholicos is Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan enthroned on the Apostolic...
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Peter I of Armenia (redirect from Catholicos Peter I)
Catholicos Peter I Getadardz (? – died 1058) (Armenian: Պետրոս Ա. Գետադարձ) was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1019 and 1058....
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ܫܠܝܡܘܢ ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ 6 January 1948[citation needed] – 11 February 2022) was Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East. He resided in the Apostolic...
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280. The term "Catholicos" is derived from the Greek word Katholikos (Καθολικός), meaning "Universal Bishop". The title Catholicos, is used in several...
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The East. The Holy Synod is listed as follow: Mar Gewargis III Younan, Catholicos-Patriarch (seat in Baghdad, Iraq) Mar Yacob Daniel, Metropolitan of the...
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Baselios Paulose II (redirect from Catholicos Baselios Paulose II)
Syria. On 7 September 1975, Ignatius Jacob III consecrated Philoxenus as Catholicos of India. On 14 September 1980, he consecrated Ignatios Zakka I Iwas,...
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jurisdiction of Catholicos is limited to India so to avoid disambiguation and avoid legal issues. The Syriac Orthodox Church uses the title Catholicos of India...
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Baselios Paulose I (redirect from Catholicos Moran Mar Beselios Paulose of the East)
India – 2 May 1913) was the first Catholicos of the East after its reinstatement in India. The First Catholicos of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church...
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Gregory IX of Cilicia (redirect from Catholicos Gregory IX)
Catholicos Gregory IX Mousabegian was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church at Cilicia between 1439 and 1446. In 1439, the national clergy summoned...
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Khoren I of Armenia (redirect from Catholicos Khoren I of Armenia)
selected by Catholicos Gevorg (George) V as the church's chief negotiator with the Soviet government of Armenia. On March 4, 1923, the Catholicos appointed...
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