His Holiness Vazgen I (born Levon Garabed Baljian; September 20, 1908-August 18, 1994) was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1955 and 1994 in one of the longest reigns of the Armenian Catholicoi. Vazgen was born in Bucharest, Romania to a family belonging to the Armenian minority. His father was a shoemaker and his mother was a school teacher. Surprisingly, the young Levon Baljian did not initially pursue the Church as a profession, … Wikipedia
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