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Died. Gregory Peter Cardinal Agagianian, 75, scholarly Armenian-born prelate and twice (1958 and 1963) a leading non-Italian candidate for Pope; of cancer; in Rome. After studying for the priesthood in Rome, Agagianian returned to Soviet Georgia as a parish priest and in 1937 became Beirut-based patriarch of 100,000 Armenian Catholics. Nine years later he was made the second Armenian cardinal in the history of the church. The Vatican's resident expert on Soviet affairs and master of eleven languages, he also headed Roman Catholic missions throughout the world from...
That gambit dismayed the progressives. Dutch Bishop Jan Willebrands, the secretariat's second-in-command, got an audience with the Pope, warned him of the adverse worldwide reaction if the declaration were sidetracked. Paul agreed. He summoned Gregory Peter Agagianian, a Curia cardinal and one of the moderators, and suggested that the bishops should be allowed to decide whether they wanted the text. Agagianian informed the council leaders of Paul's views, and they reversed their stand...
...simple majority vote rather than by two-thirds, and substitute schemata may be brought to the floor of the council by petition of 50 or more bishops. Four cardinals have been given "executive mandate" by the Pope to supervise the debates. One member of the quartet-Gregory Peter Agagianian -is a Curia moderate who favors a measure of church renewal. The other three are among the most vocal "progressive" members of the council-Belgium's Leo Josef Suenens, Julius Dopfner of Munich and Giacomo Ler-caro of Bologna...
...missionary arm of Rome, it watches over 35 million Catholics in Asia, Africa and much of Latin America. Concerned about the struggle of the church with Communism in these areas, Pius XII appointed one of the Vatican's wisest old hands as prefect: Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, an Armenian who holds the ancient title of Patriarch of Cilicia...
Within the college, liberal cardinals look for leadership to Bologna's Giacomo Ler-caro and Milan's Giovanni Montini. Both men have fought to clean out Communism from Italian labor unions. Best known of possible compromise choices is Agagianian, who according to Roman gossip came within a handful of votes of winning election in 1958. Then, as now, some cardinals would not vote for him out of dislike for having "a Pope with a beard." Another Roman papabile is not yet a cardinal: Archbishop Pericle Felici, 50, secretary-general of the Central Preparatory Commission for the Ecumenical Council...