Zaven Der-Yeghiayan received his primary education in Baghdad . He continued his studies at the Armash Theological Seminary . He became bishop and then prelate for Diyarbakir and in 1913 he became patriarch of Constantinople . The Ottoman government exiled him to Baghdad in 1916 . In 1926 Zaven became director plenipotentiary of the Melkonian Institute in Cyprus . In 1927 he moved back to Baghdad . He is the author of '' My Patriarchal Memoirs '' . This memoir gives readers a detailed eyewitness account of the Armenian Genocide and attempts by the Patriarch himself to stop it
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Zaven I Der Yeghiayan of Constantinople