Avedik Evdokiatsi, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople was born on April 1, 1657, in Evdokia (Tokat). He was a disciple of the priests Sarkis and Bedros, and then of archimandrite Hagop Belenktsi. In 1675 he was ordained deacon in Payas (Cilicia), and then he moved to the monastery of St. Hagop of Gabos, in Upper Armenia (Partser Hayg), where he was consecrated monk (apegha) and …