The Very Reverend, Senior Archimandrite Yeghishe Mandjikian, former Catholicosal Vicar of the Armenian Prelature of Cyprus, passes away

By Alexander-Michael Hadjilyra

Ara Mandjikian was born in Karadouran, Kessab, Syria, on March 21, 1942. At a young age he and his family moved to Bourj Hammoud, Beirut. After graduating from the Holy Forty Martyrs Elementary School, he was admitted to the Theological Seminary in Antelias in 1956. On May 22, 1960 Archbishop Khoren Paroian ordained him a deacon, and on May 23, 1963 Bishop Hrant Khachadourian ordained him a celibate priest, called Hieromonk Yeghishe.