Gregorio Pietro Agagianian
Gregorio Pietro XV Agagianian was an Armenian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the head of the Armenian Catholic Church from 1937 to 1962 and supervised the Catholic Church's missionary work for more than a decade, until his retirement in 1970. He was considered papabile on two occasions, in 1958 and 1963.
Photograph by David Lees, 1965
Cardinal Agagianian (center) in Rome, 1958.
The tomb of Agagianian at San Nicola da Tolentino, Rome
The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular churches sui iuris of the Catholic Church. It accepts the leadership of the bishop of Rome, and is therefore in full communion with the universal Catholic Church, including the Latin Church and the 22 other Eastern Catholic Churches. The Armenian Catholic Church is regulated by Eastern canon law, summed up in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.
Cathedral of Saint Elias and Saint Gregory the Illuminator in Beirut, the seat of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia.
Saint John Church of Sohrol in Iran, built in the 5th or 6th century
Saint Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Catholic Cathedral in Glendale, California
Bishops meeting in Jerusalem, circa 1880. The archbishop (centre) wears a Roman pallium.
