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Christian feast day: Blessed Ignatius Maloyan (Armenian Catholic Church)

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Blessed Ignatius Maloyan (Armenian Catholic Church) from June 11, null

Ignatius Maloyan

19th and 20th-century Armenian Catholic archbishop and martyr

Ignatius Shoukrallah Maloyan, ICPB was an Armenian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mardin from 1911 to 1915. After repeatedly refusing conversion to Islam, he was tortured and murdered by the Ottoman Gendarmerie during the Armenian genocide, specifically in…
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Armenian Catholic Church

Eastern Catholic church

The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris of the Catholic Church. It accepts the leadership of the bishop of Rome, and is therefore in full communion with the universal Catholic Church, including the Latin Church and the 22 other Eastern…
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