Krikor Ayvazian

Krikor Ayvazian (b. Marash, Ottoman Empire 27 June 1912 - d. Aleppo, Syria 21 January 1997) was the Armenian Catholic Bishop of Qamishli.

[1] Krikor Ayvazian was consecrated on September 6, 1936, as a priest in the Armenian Catholic Church.

The co-consecrators Archbishop Georges Layek of Aleppo, Syria and Bishop Raphaël Bayan of Alexandria, Egypt.

Upon retirement on 23 November 1988 he was appointed titular bishop of Marash.

[2] He authored a great number of publications including recounting his beginnings in Marash (in Turkish Kahramanmaraş), Cilicia (Turkey).