Zaven I Der Yeghiayan

Zaven Der Yeghiayan (Զաւէն Տէր Եղիայեան; 8 September 1868 in Mosul, Ottoman Iraq – 4 June 1947 in Baghdad, Iraq) was Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople in 1913–22.

[1] He was deported to Mosul during the Armenian genocide.

Zaven Der-Yeghiayan received his primary education in Baghdad and continued his studies at the Armash Theological Seminary.

In 1926, Zaven became director plenipotentiary of the Melkonian Institute in Cyprus.

[1] This memoir gives readers a detailed eyewitness account of the Armenian genocide and attempts by the Patriarch himself to stop it.