Benedictine Congregation of the Mechitarists (Mechitarists), C.A.M.

Type: Monastic Order of Pontifical Right (for Men)

1701: Established as Congregation of the Mechitarists of Venice (Italiano) / Congregazione Mechitarista dì Venezia (Italiano) / C.M.V.
1773: Branched to create Congregation of the Mechitarists of Vienna
2000: Renamed as Benedictine Congregation of the Mechitarists (Mechitarists) (English) / Congregazione Mechitarista (Italiano) / Ordo Mechitaristarum, Monachorum Armenorum sub Regula S. Benedicti (latine) / C.A.M. (merged with the suppressed Congregation of the Mechitarists of Vienna)

Address: Isola di San Lazzaro, 30126 Venezia-Lido, Italy

Phone: 041.526.01.04

Pontifical Delegate:

Abbot General:	Abbot Elia Kilaghbian, C.A.M. (? – 2016)
Abbot General:	Abbot Vartan Kechichian, C.A.M. (later Archbishop) (1997 – 2000)
Abbot General:	Archbishop Serapione Uluhogian, C.A.M. (1960.07.22 – 1965.05.16)
Pontifical Delegate:	Archbishop Lévon Boghos Zékiyan (81) (2016.06.05 – 2022.01)

Founder:

2012: Bishop Vartan Achkarian, C.A.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Beirut of the Armenians (Lebanon)

1965: Archbishop Serapione Uluhogian, C.A.M., Abbot General of Congregation of the Mechitarists of Venice

>1885: Bishop Moise Amberbojan, C.A.M., Titular Bishop of Croia

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