OCP News Service - 21/01/21 Yerevan-Armenia: Bishop Vertanes Abrahamyan has been appointed as the Primate of the Diocese of Artsakh. Prior to the new appointment, the Primate served as the Head Chaplain of the Armed Forces of the Ministry of the Republic of Armenia. The Pontifical Order of appointment was issued by His Holiness Karekin II ...
OCP News Service - 13/4/2020 +Memory Eternal+ Dhaka-Bangladesh: Michael Martin, the late caretaker of the Armenian Orthodox Church in Dhaka, Bangladesh passed away at the age of 89. A few years ago Martin moved to Canada to spend more time with his family. Martin played an important role in the maintenance of the Armenian Orthodox Church in Dhaka. Armen ...
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate - 4/4/18 His Holiness Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II visited his brother in Christ His Holiness Catholicos Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia for the Armenian Orthodox Church, in the Catholicosate headquarters in Antelias, Beirut. His Holiness was accompanied by Very Rev. Raban Joseph Bali, Patriarchal Secretary and Media Office ...
Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Jerusalem - 9/11/17 The Church of St. Saviour’s on Mount Zion is renovated and looks splendid. Last Saturday, October 28, Vespers were celebrated in St. Saviour’s, and the images in the church were anointed by His Beatitude Archbishop-Patriarch Nourhan Manougian of Jerusalem. Sunday, October 29 the Divine Liturgy was celebrated in St. Saviour’s. Source:
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin - July 2017 With the blessings of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; the Publishing Department of Mother See has published two new boosk. The first is a Russian-language work entitled “St. Grigor of Tatev and his Morality”by Rev. Fr. Ghevond Hovhannisyan, a member of the ...
Armenian Orthodox Church of Lebanon - August 2016 Since his arrival in Geneva, His Holiness Aram I has been consulting with experts regarding the lawsuit asking from Turkey the Return of the historic Seat of the Catholicosate in Sis (Kozan). Discussions have focussed on the recent attempted coup in Turkey and its temporary suspension of the European Convention ...
Monu Phillip – (Special Envoy of the OCP Secretariat) OCP News Service – August 2016 Also Read: OCP Delegation Visits Fr Mesrob Sarkissian – the Armenian Catholicosal Vicar of UAE & Qatar: The Blessing of Grapes | Khaghogh Orhnek">The Blessing of Grapes | Khaghogh Orhnek Abu Dhabi: Divine Liturgy and blessing of grapes ceremony were held at the Holy ...
Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church - August 2015 Visit FB Event Page Here: The blessing of the Holy Muron, which traditionally occurs once every seven years, will be offered on September 27, 2015 at the Mother See of Holy Holy Etchmiadizn on the Feast of the Holy Cross of Varag, by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and ...
Prakash Varghese ( OCP Delegate of UAE, Gulf and Levant) OCP News Service - 29/04/2015 Read more about the Church here: Beirut: The 15th-century Armenian Apostolic church located in the old Christian quarter of Jdeydeh has been destroyed in bombings. Reports suggest that explosives were placed underneath the structure through some underground tunnels. This historic church was the ...
12/4/15 The Newly Renovated Martyrs’ Chapel in Antelias of the Armenian Orthodox Church in Lebanon. Source:
Armenian Orthodox Church in Georgia - April 2015 On April 1, 2015 “Spring and Mother’s Love” event organized by “Saint Movses Khorenatsi” Primary School was held in Calouste Gulbenkian Hall of the Hayartun Center. It was attended by the Fathers of the Church, Hayartun Center employees, parents and other guests. Mrs. Eleonora Vardanyan, the wife the ...
31 March 2015. During the evening service in Antelias on Great and Holy Tuesday, the Armenian Orthodox Church commemorated the parable of the Ten Maidens. After prayers and hymns on the theme, reminding the faithful to be prepared for the Day of Judgment, the priest read the parable (Matthew 25:14-30). As is the tradition, during ...
Armenian Orthodox Church in Georgia - march 2015 On March 21, 2015 the feast of the first Catholicos St. Gregory the Illuminator was celebrated in memory of his torments in Khor Virap. The Divine Liturgy therefore was delivered by the Primate of the Armenian Diocese, His Grace Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan in Tbilisi St. Etchmiadzin Church. At ...
March 2015 The Mother See is pleased to announce this year’s schedule of Holy Week and Easter Services. All services will be held in the Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin. We encourage our faithful world-wide to participate in the services leading up to the Glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Armenian communities throughout the world ...
Armenian Orthodox Church in Georgia On March 15, 2015 Doctor of Philology, Chairman of the Patriotic Union "Lorva Dzor"("Lori Valley”), Head of RA MES State Inspectorate of Language, Professor Sergo Yeritsyan presented his book “Following In Ananian-Hovnanian Family Footsteps” in the “Hayartun” Center’s Calouste Gulbenkian hall. The author of the book, Armenian public figures of Tbilisi ...
Armenian Orthodox Church in Georgia - February 2015 On February 17, 2015 the 65th birthday anniversary of famous poetess and translator Anahit Bostanjyan and 40th anniversary of her literary activity was celebrated in Tbilisi Writers House. She is the author of many proses and poems, a dedicated woman, who connects Armenian and Georgian literatures. Famous Georgian writers, ...
Armenian Orthodox Church in Georgia - February 2015 The birthday of the great Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanyan was on February 19. As every year, Armenians of Tbilisi visited Khojivanq Pantheon, where lies the Great Loretsi, and paid their respects and love to the great Armenian writer. The Primate of the Armenian Diocese together with the clergy ...
Armenian Orthodox Church in Georgia- February 2015 The personal exhibition of honored artist Giovanni Vepkhvadze’s oil paintings entitled “My Tbilisi” was opened on February 6. Calouste Gulbenkian Hall at the “Hayartun” Center of the Diocese lacked sufficient space to admit all the visitors of that interesting and nostalgic exhibition. 30 paintings of changing and almost disappearing old ...
Armenian Orthodox Church in Georgia - February 2015 Mikael Hovsepyan was a well-known, merited choreographer, who dedicated all his life to the preservation and development of Armenian culture outside the homeland. “Pari Misha” (Misha of the Dance), of blessed memory, considered it his mission to inspire the young generation with love of Armenian choreography and to ...
January 2015 - Armenian Orthodox Church in Lebanon The Catholicosate of Cilicia announces the forthcoming ceremony of the blessing of the Holy Muron (Chrism) by His Holiness Aram I to be held on: Saturday 18 July 2015 in the evening at the St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias, Lebanon. Source:
2014-2015 Patriarchate's Land in Jericho has been returned to the Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Source: