George VI of Armenia

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His Holiness Gevorg VI of Armenia Գևորգ Զ Չորեքչյան Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians
Church	Armenian Apostolic Church
See	Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
Installed	1945
Term ended	1954
Predecessor	Khoren I of Armenia
Successor	Vazgen I
Personal details
Born	Georg Khachaturovich Cheorekchian (or Tcheorekdjian) (1868-12-02)December 2, 1868 Rostov-on-Don, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	May 9, 1954(1954-05-09) (aged 85) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Buried	Mother Cathedral of Holy Ejmiatsin

Gevorg VI of Armenia (Armenian: Գևորգ Զ. Չորեքչյան (Նորնախիջևանցի), Kevork VI Cheorekjian; December 2, 1868 – May 9, 1954) was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 1945 to 1954.^[1]

The position had remained vacant from 1938 to 1945 following the Stalinist-era purges against organized religion, culminating in the murder of the then catholicos Khoren I in 1938. Ejmiatsin was ordered closed and the position of Catholicos of All Armenians remained vacant for seven years.

But when Stalin himself ordered the easing of restrictions against religion, it was allowed for the assignment of Bishop Gevorg as the new Catholicos of All Armenians as Gevorg VI (also known as Gevorg VI of Armenia) and was eventually allowed to return to Ejmiatsin.

During the Soviet regime, the press praised Gevorg as one of the most outstanding supporters of the "struggle for peace."

He died at his flat in Yerevan in 1954, and was succeeded by Vazgen I, who was elected in 1955 as Catholicos of All Armenians.

Gevorg VI is buried near the Mother Cathedral of Holy Ejmiatsin.