Catholicos Garegin Hovsepyan

Archbishop Garegin Hovsepyan was not only a student of the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary, but also led it during a difficult period. The great Armenologist and respected clergyman was one of the first students of the seminary to be ordained a celibate priest. He spent most of his life in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, was ordained a bishop, and received the rank of archbishop. He was elected Catholicos of Cilicia at the suggestion of his friend, Archbishop Gevork Chorekchian.