Khoren I of Armenia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Khoren I of Armenia

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1873

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 06-Apr-1938

Profession: priest

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Khoren I Muradbekian (Armenian: ????? ? ????????????; December 8, 1873 – April 5/6, 1938) was an Armenian Apostolic religious figure who served as Catholicos from 1932 until his murder in 1938.
He previously served as locum tenens, between 1923 and 1932, in the latter years of and after the death of Catholicos Gevorg V, and bishop of Yerevan from 1910 to 1923. Khoren I died in mysterious circumstances at the Pontifical Residence in Etchmiadzin.
The Armenian Church and most historians believe he was murdered by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police.
He was reburied at the courtyard of Etchmiadzin Cathedral in 1996, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, next to other Catholicoi.
The Armenian Church considers him a martyr.