Editing Vazgen I (section)

{{Short description|Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1955-1994)}}{{Citations needed|date=April 2023}}{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific-prefix = His Holiness, [[National Hero of Armenia]]
| name = Vazgen / Vazken I
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| honorific-suffix = Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians
| image = Vazgen I.png
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| 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''' ({{Langx|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.