Karekin II


Garegin II
Գարեգին Բ
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
Orders
Ordination1972
Consecration23 October 1983
RankCathlicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born
Ktrij Nersessian

(1951-08-21) 21 August 1951 (age 73)
NationalityArmenian
DenominationArmenian Apostolic
EducationUniversity of Vienna

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.