Bedros IV of Cilicia
Bedros IV Sarajian (
Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church for only six months during 1940. After his death, the position remained vacant until 1943 when Karekin I
of Cilicia was elected.
Bedros was
Catholicos of Cilicia
(1936–1940). He was eventually elected as Catholicos on 30 May 1940 and consecrated in the newly-built St Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias on 2 July.
Source: Avakian, Arra S. (1998). Armenia: A Journey Through History. The Electric Press, Fresno.