Sahak II of Cilicia

Born in the village of Yeghiki in Kharpert, he received his religious training in Constantinople and Jerusalem.

He was Catholicos of Cilicia during the tumultuous years of the Armenian genocide,[1] and was first exiled from the see's seat in Sis, and then again after relocating to Adana.

By 1929, aged 80 and weary, Catholicos Sahak appealed for help to the Near East Relief organization, which had built several orphanages for orphaned Armenian children fleeing the genocide.

One of these orphanages was in the town of Antelias near Beirut, Lebanon, which they leased to the Catholicos for one dollar a year.

Due to his advanced age, Sahak II encouraged the election of a co-adjutor Catholicos to share his throne.