Meghrig Parikian
{{Short description|Armenian bishop (1968–2021)}}
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Meghrig Parikian (Armenian: Մեղրիկ Բարիքեան) (3 January 1968 – 16 January 2021) was an Armenian bishop who served in the Armenian Apostolic Church under the jurisdiction of the Holy See of Cilicia.{{Cite web|url=https://orthodoxia.ch/en/name/1461/show|title=Meghrig Garabed Parikian - Names - Orthodoxia|website=orthodoxia.ch}} Parikian was the Dean of the Armenian Theological Seminary in Bikfaya, Lebanon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/en/archives/37533|title=HIS HOLINESS CATHOLICOS ARAM I APPOINTS HG BISHOP MEGHRIG PARIKIAN AS THE DEAN OF THE ARMENIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY|website=Armenian Church Catholicosate of Cilicia|date=26 August 2020}} Meghrig Parikian was also a musician and composer who had studied at Juilliard and the Mannes School of Music in New York.{{Cite web |date=2022-03-02 |title=A young opera singer lost his biggest champions to Covid. This performance helped him heal |url=https://torontolife.com/memoir/a-young-opera-singer-lost-his-biggest-champions-to-covid-this-performance-helped-him-heal/ |access-date=2022-10-25 |website=Toronto Life |language=en-US}}
Priesthood
Parikian was appointed the parish priest of St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church in Toronto in 2002.{{Cite web|url=https://armenianprelacy.org/2021/01/20/in-memoriam-bishop-meghrig-parikian/|title=IN MEMORIAM - BISHOP MEGHRIG PARIKIAN|publisher=The Armenian Prelacy|date=January 20, 2021}}{{Cite web |author=|date=2009-04-14 |title=Father Meghrig Parikian of St. Mary's Armenian.
|url=https://nowtoronto.com/news/newsfront-2009-04-14|website=NOW Magazine - Newsfront}} In 2014 he was ordained as a bishop, and then elected as Prelate of the Armenian Prelacy of Canada by the lay council on May 10, 2014.{{Cite web |title=His Grace Bishop Meghrig Parikian, Prelate of Canada |author= |work=Horizon |date=12 May 2014 |url= https://horizonweekly.ca/en/38120-3/}}{{Cite web|url=https://armenianprelacy.ca/former-prelates/|title=Former Prelates|website=Armenian Prelacy of Canada|date=January 5, 2018}}
Death
Parikian died of COVID-19 on January 16, 2021.{{Cite news |title=Toronto opera singer commemorates loved ones lost to pandemic through performance|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/8677546/toronto-opera-singer-loved-ones-pandemic/ |first=Kayla|last=McLean|date=March 20, 2022|website=Global News |language=en-US}} His final unction was held on January 17, 2021, at St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Cathedral in Antelias, Lebanon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/archives/38381|title=ՎԵՐՋԻՆ ՕԾՈՒՄ ԵՒ ԹԱՂՈՒՄ ՀՈԳԵԼՈՅՍ Տ. ՄԵՂՐԻԿ ԵՊՍ. ԲԱՐԻՔԵԱՆԻ|website=Armenian Church Catholicosate of Cilicia|date=18 January 2021}} He was buried in the Holy See of Cilicia Brotherhood Cemetery in the Catholicosate of Cilicia.