On Saturday, July 1st 2006, at 6:00 pm, Der Garabed Tateossian was ordained a priest in the "Sourp Perguitch" church, by the hands of His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX, Catholicos Patriarch of the See of Cilicia of the Armenian Catholics, on the occasion of the celebration of "Kud Neshkharats of our father Gregory the Illuminator".
Father Garabed Tateossian was born in 1958 in Bourj Hamoud. He married Silva Meguerditchian in 1983 and has 3 children: 2 daughters and 1 son. He has completed his studies in Philosophy and Theology at the Kaslik and Andonian Universities.