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((Short description|Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1955-1994)))((Citations needed|date=April 2023))((Infobox Christian leader
| honorific-prefix = His Holiness
| name = Vazgen / Vazken I
| patriarch_of = 
| honorific-suffix = Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians
| image = HisHolinessVazgenI.jpg
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| ordination = 
| consecration = 
| enthroned = 1955
| ended = 1994
| church = [[Armenian Apostolic Church]]
| see = Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
| predecessor = [[George VI of Armenia|George VI]]
| successor = [[Karekin I]]
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| birth_name = Levon Garabed Baljian
| birth_date = ((Birth date|mf=yes|1908|09|20))
| birth_place = [[Bucharest]], [[Kingdom of Romania]]
| death_date = ((Death date|mf=yes|1994|8|18)) (aged 85)
| death_place = [[Yerevan]], [[Armenia]]
| buried = [[Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin]]
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'''Vazgen I''' also '''Vazken I of Bucharest''', (((Lang-hy|Վազգէն Ա Բուխարեստցի))), born '''Levon Garabed Baljian''' (((lang|hy|Լևոն Կարապետ Աբրահամի Պալճյան)); September 20, 1908 – August 18, 1994)<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/624235/Vazgen-I|title=Vazgen I|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica))</ref> was the [[Catholicos of All Armenians]] between 1955 and 1994, for a total of 39 years, the [[List of catholicoi of all Armenians|4th longest reign]] in the history of the [[Armenian Apostolic Church]]. 

A native of [[Romania]], he began his career as a philosopher, before becoming a [[Doctor of Theology]] and a member of the local Armenian clergy. The leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church hierarchy in Romania, he became Catholicos in 1955, moving to [[Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet Armenia]]. Vazgen I led the Armenian Church during the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]], and was the first Catholicos in newly independent Armenia.

==Biography==
Vazgen was born in [[Bucharest]] to a family belonging to the [[Armenians of Romania|Armenian-Romanian community]]. His father was a shoemaker and his mother was a schoolteacher. The young Levon Baljian did not initially pursue the Church as a profession, instead graduating from the [[University of Bucharest]]'s Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. After graduation, he became a philosopher and published a series of scholarly articles.

As his interests began to shift from philosophy to theology, Baljian studied Armenian Apostolic Theology and Divinity in [[Athens]], Greece. He eventually gained the title of ''vardapet'', an ecclesiastical rank for learned preachers and teachers in the Armenian Apostolic Church roughly equivalent to receiving a doctorate in theology. In the 1940s, he became a bishop, and then the ''arajnord'' (leader) of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Romania.

His rise through the hierarchy of the Church culminated in 1955 when, on September 30, 1955, he was elected Catholicos of All Armenians, becoming one of the youngest Catholicoi in the history of the Armenian Apostolic Church. He reigned until his death in 1994. During his long time as Catholicos, he managed to assert some independence for his church in face of the Soviet rule in the Armenian SSR, and lived to see [[Freedom of religion|religious freedom]] restored under Armenia's national government in 1991.

From then on, he was busy renewing ancient Armenian churches and reviving institutions of the church. He saved a number of church treasures by establishing the [[Alex Manoogian]] Museum of the Mother Church. Vazgen intensified contacts with the [[Armenian Catholic Church]], with the aim of reuniting both wings of Armenian Christianity.

He died at his residence in Yerevan on August 18, 1994, after a long illness from cancer.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/19/obituaries/vazgen-i-head-of-armenian-church-dies-at-85.html?pagewanted=1|title=Vazgen I, Head of Armenian Church, Dies at 85|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Wolfgang Saxon|date=1994-08-19))</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery class="center">
File:Erevan - Meeting of Catholicos of Armenia & Georgia - October 1972.jpg|Meeting of Vazgen I and [[David V, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia|David V]], [[Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia]], Yerevan, October 1972.

File:Architectural-Commission-of-the-Mother-See-(1970-1988).jpg| Architectural Commission of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (1970–1988). First row from left: [[Varazdat Harutyunyan]], Vazgen I, K. Altunyan Second row from left: [[Baghdasar Arzoumanian]], H. Babakhanian, [[Grigor Khanjyan]], A. Galikyan, M. Hovhannisyan

File:ArmenianStamps-046.jpg| Vazgen I on an [[Postage stamps and postal history of Armenia|Armenian postage stamp]]

File:Vazgen First Bust, Vanadzor (2).jpg|Statue in front of Vazgen I Elementary School in [[Vanadzor]]

File:Vazgen Arajin 2.JPG|Statue in a park in Echmiadzin

File:VazgenItomb.jpg|Vazgen I's [[tombstone]]

</gallery>

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==External links==
* [https://www.mediathek.at/atom/017829FA-3AE-00976-00000BEC-01772EE2 Audio recording with Vazgen I] in the Online Archive of the [[Österreichische Mediathek]] (Interview in German and Armenian). Retrieved 18 September 2019

==References==
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