Karekin II

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 Apostolic Church, since 1999. In 2013 he was unanimously elected the Oriental Orthodox head of the World Council of Churches for the next eight years.

This article is about the incumbent Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church. For other uses, see Karekin II (disambiguation).
His Holiness

Garegin II
Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos
of All Armenians
Karekin II
Native name
Գարեգին Բ
ChurchArmenian Apostolic Church
SeeMother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
AppointedOctober 27, 1999
PredecessorKarekin I
Personal details
Born
Ktrij Nersessian

(1951-08-21) 21 August 1951
Voskehat, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityArmenian
DenominationArmenian Apostolic
EducationUniversity of Vienna
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