Sahak II Mashalian

Archbishop Sahag II Mashalian, also known as Sahak Mashalyan in Eastern Armenian transliteration became the 85th Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople in 2019.
The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople is one of the four Sees of Armenian Apostolic Church and has an autocephalous status, accepting, on the other hand, spiritual supremacy of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians in Holy Echmiadzin.
Patriarch Sahak II was born as Shahan Mashalian in Istanbul, Turkey on 17 March 1962.
During the patriarchal election, the Turkish government banned candidates from abroad. Therefore, only two candidates participated in the elections–Mashalian and Archbishop Aram Ateshyan—both of whom are considered close to the Turkish government. The new, disputed Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul slammed the US Senate recognition of the Armenian Genocide although he himself hails from a family of Armenian Genocide survivors.