Guregh Israelian of Jerusalem

He was ordained deacon in December 1921 and celibate priest (taking the name Guregh) in July 1923.

He was installed as Patriarch in the Cathedral of St James on 6 December 1945 after the British King George VI had given the necessary assent.

Upon his death in 1949, the position of Patriarch of Jerusalem remained vacant for more than a decade, i.e. from 1949 to 1957 and from 1958 to 1960, with a very brief period when Tiran Nersoyan was elected as patriarch of Jerusalem (1957–1958), but was never consecrated.

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