Religion

Benny Hinn – half Armenian; Israeli-born pastor and televangelist.

Catholicos of Armenia – head bishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

David Anhaght, philosopher.

Demos Shakarian – founder of the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International.

G. I. Gurdjieff – (Georges Ivanovich); half Armenian; mystic, philosopher.

Garegin II Catholicos (1999-present)

Gregory the Illuminator – ("Krikor"); Christian saint, founder of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Gregory of Narek – Armenian monk, poet, theologian and mystical philosopher.

Gregory Peter XV Aghajanian, Cardianal – (1895 - 1971) Tiflis, Georgia. He attained the academic degree of Doctorate in Theology, Philosophy and Jurisprudence. He mastered Armenian, Russian, Italian, French, English, Latin, Classical Greek, German, Spanish and Arabic languages.

Haik Hovsepian Mehr – bishop.

Hovannes Draskhanakertsi – Catholicos.

Isaac of Armenia – Catholicos.

Jozef Teodorowicz – metropolitan of Armenian Catholic Church in Lviv

Mekhitar Petrossian (Abbot Mekhitar of Sebastia – (1676 - 1749) Founder of the Armenian Catholic Order of the Mechitarists in Venice and Vienna.

Mkrtich Khrimian (Khrimian Hayrik) – (1820 - 1907) He became ordained at age 33 as a priest. With his modest printing equipment he started to publish "Eagle of Vaspurakan" in 1858, the first Armenian newspaper published in the Ottoman Empire.

Patriarch Karekin II Kazanjian of Constantinople – 83rd Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. Bishop and author.

Pavel Florensky – theologian, philosopher.

R.J. Rushdoony – Christian Reconstructionist.

Roger Youderian – an evangelical Christian missionary

Sarmad – Indian-Armenian Saint, poet and Mystic (17th Century)

Saint Nerses I the Great (Nerses Shnorhali) – Catholicos, writer.

Saint Mesrop Mashtots – inventor of the Armenian alphabet.

Shushanik – saint.

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