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Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Dies at 93

Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, the 96th Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, died on Friday, October 12, at the age of 93.

Manoogian, had been in a coma after suffering a stroke in January. He headed the Armenian Apostolic communities in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan.

On January 30, 2012, the clergy at the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem convened and assigned Archbishop Nourhan Manougian provisionally to run the affairs of the Patriarchate until the official death of the Patriarch and the assignment of a new Patriarch.

Manoogian was born on February 16, 1919 in a refugee camp near Baquba in the Iraqi desert for survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

He studied theology at the seminary of the Armenian Patriarchate  in Jerusalem and was ordained in 1939.

In 1946, he was transferred to the United States, where he served as New York’s Armenian bishop and then primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America.

 He was elected the 96th Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem on March 22, 1990 and enthroned on November 1, 1990.

The patriarch’s funeral is to be held on October 22 at the Armenian cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. His successor will be elected in 40 days, an appointment which needs the approval of Israel and the king of Jordan.

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