Archbishop Sumbat Lapajian, credited with helping to create St. Mary’s Armenian Apostolic Church parish in Glendale and for years leading Holy Cross Cathedral in Montebello, died July 17 in ...

He was appointed pastor of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Cross Church of Los Angeles in 1961, a post he kept until he was elected prelate of the Western Prelacy in 1973. In 1974, he was consecrated ...