His Holiness KAREKIN I Catholicos of All Armenians - Holy Echmiadzin

After the death of Catholicos Vazgen I in 1994, Catholicos Karekin Sarkissian was elected Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians by a National Ecclesiastical Assembly and hereafter became known as Karekin I, being the first Supreme Patriarch with that name. Karekin I - died in June 1999.