Ignatius Bedros XVI Batanian

Styles of
Ignatius Petros XVI Batanian
Reference styleHis Beatitude
Spoken styleYour Beatitude
Religious styleCatholicos
Posthumous styleN/A

Ignatius Bedros XVI Batanian (in Armenian Իգնատիոս Պետրոս ԺԶ Պաթանեան French Ignace Pierre XVI Batanian; 15 February 1899 in Mardin, Ottoman Empire – 9 October 1979, in Lebanon) was Armenian Catholic Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia from 1962 until his resignation in 1976. His election came as replacement of cardinal patriarch Gregory-Petros XV Agagianian, who had been assigned responsibilities with the Roman Catholic Church at the Vatican.

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