Patriarch Maghakia Ormanian

Maghakia Ormanian was an Armenian religious and public-political figure and, from 1896 to 1908, Patriarch of Constantinople of the Armenian Apostolic Church. He is also known as a historian, theologian and Armenologist. He was born in 1841 in Constantinople, named Poghos at birth, and died in 1918.

The portrait shows a bearded clergyman in a pointed hood. On his chest he wears a cross, an oval pectoral medallion, star-shaped orders and a broad sash running from the shoulder across the chest.