Yeghishe Derderian of Jerusalem

On 8 June 1960, Yeghishe Derderian became the 95th Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem and served for thirty years until his death in February 1990.

Most notably, a financial scandal involving the Patriarchate prompted calls for Derderian's resignation.

[1] Derderian issued an eighty-page response denying the allegations that he had misappropriated church funds.

He wrote 22 books including biographies of religious as well as literary figures and also - under his pen name Yeghivart - poems and prose.

He died in February 1990 in his residence at the St. James convent and monastery complex in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City from a heart attack after having been ill with the flu for two days.