Ignatius Bedros XVI Batanian

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.

His official reign as Patriarch continued from 15 November 1962 until 22 April 1976 when he resigned because of legal age.

He constructed the new convent of Bzommar and the Armenian Catholic orphanage of Anjar, Lebanon.

He witnessed as Patriarch the first two very difficult years of the Lebanese Civil War.