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...cosmopolitan cardinals moved into a strategic Vatican post last week. The post: proprefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, the job in which Chicago's late Cardinal Stritch never had a chance to serve (TIME, June 9). The cardinal: Russian-born Gregory Peter XV Agagianian, patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, the church's top expert on Russian affairs, and often mentioned as a future Pope...
...This Small Boy." Lazarus Agagianian (pronounced ah-gah-jahn-yan) was born 62 years ago in what is now Soviet Georgia, is a member of the Uniate group of Armenian Christians.* Agagianian was so bright as a child that his instructors in Tiflis sent him to Rome when he was only eleven to study at the Urban College of the Propagation of the Faith. The college rejected him because of his youth, but before he was sent home little Lazarus was permitted to join a group audience with St. Pope Pius X (canonized in 1954), who noticed him and predicted...
Recalled to Rome in 1921, Father Agagianian became vice rector (later rector) of the Pontifical Armenian College. He added to his store of languages-he is now fluent in eleven, including English, Russian, French, German. Italian, Latin, classical Greek and Hebrew, and understands, but does not speak Arabic...
...Cheorekjian, received a high decoration and a new automobile from Marshal Stalin. Now it was the Pope's turn. Though he might not have so many pieces in this corner of the chessboard as his opponent, Pius was playing them well. Vatican gossip already mentioned 50-year-old Agagianian as a possible successor to the present Pope...
Jolly, mild-mannered Patriarch Agagianian was unruffled by his new limelight. Referring to his patriarchal title of "Beatitude" instead of "Eminence," Agagianian said: "It's better to be blessed than eminent...