The Armenian church of the Russian city of Rubtsovsk was consecrated


The bell of the Armenian church rang for the first time in Rubtsovsk, Russia. About 600 Armenians live in that city, who built the second Armenian church in the Altai region within eight years. The prayer house, built according to the rules of Armenian church architecture, is 25 meters high, with a bell tower. On October 6, His Eminence Archbishop Yezras Nersisyan performed the consecration ceremony of the church and named the prayer house after the soldier Saint Gevorg.
 

Archbishop Ezras blessed the newly built Armenian church in Shahumyan village of Rostov-on-Don


The newly built Armenian church of Shahumyan village of Yegorlik region, the foundations of which were consecrated by Archbishop Ezras in 2017, was consecrated. The church was built by the joint efforts of the villagers. More than two thousand Armenians live in Shahumyan village, who are from Mush by roots. There is a school where two hundred students attend, they have a kindergarten, a playground, and a cultural center. Most of the streets bear Armenian names: Baghramyan, Nalbandian, Shahumyan.

 

The school named after St. Grigor Narekatsi operating in Moscow has started the new academic year


Saint Grigor Narekatsi school has more than 40 students. Children actively participate in Olympiads, scientific research and music competitions. 
The education at St. Grigor Narekatsi College is 11 years long, operates according to the educational standards of the Russian Federation and is the only one in the region where the Armenian language, Armenian literature, and the history of the Armenian people are mandatory subjects of the curriculum.

After 105 years, Martiros Saryan's painting was exhibited for the first time in the Armenian Church in Moscow


On June 20, an exhibition of one of the paintings of the world-famous artist Martiros Saryan, almost unknown to the public, was opened in the "Tapan" Museum of the Armenian Church in Moscow. The author titled the painting painted in 1919 as "Red Horse". 
At the request of His Eminence Archbishop Yezras, the painting was provided for a temporary exhibition by Valery Dudakov, with whom the museum cooperates and organizes exhibitions. Dudakov acquired the painting in the 1980s and never exhibited it.

The feast of the Resurrection was celebrated in the Armenian churches of Russia


The news of Christ's miraculous resurrection was heard in the Armenian church in Moscow. The festive liturgy was performed by the diocesan Primate Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan. The feast was celebrated with great pomp in the newly opened Saint Mesrop Mashtots Armenian Church in Tyumen, in the Armenian churches of Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, Yaroslavl, Volgograd, Samara, Tashkent and Crimea.

Holy Nativity in the Armenian Church in Moscow


His Eminence Archbishop Yezras Nersisyan, Primate of the Diocese offered a Holy Nativity Divine Liturgy in the Holy Transfiguration Church. The Diocesan Primate conveyed the Christmas patriarchal message of Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II to the audience.

 

 

 

Conference dedicated to St. Nerses the Graceful in the Armenian Church in Moscow


On December 21, a conference dedicated to the 850th anniversary of the death of Saint Nerses the Graceful was held in the meeting hall of the Presbyterian Armenian Church in Moscow, which was attended by theologians, philologists, art critics, and historians from different cities of Russia, as well as from Armenia.

 

 

Ordination of new acolytes in the Holy Transfiguration church in Moscow


On the feast of St. Stepan the Proto-Deacon, in the Armenian Cathedral of Holy Transfiguration in Moscow, the diocesan Primate His Eminence Archbishop Yezras Nersisyan performed an ordination of Acolytes. 14 Armenians of different ages serving in the Armenian churches of Chalter village in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Tver, Rostov received their Acolytes degrees.

The clergy of the Russian-Armenian diocese condemned the genocidal actions of Azerbaijan in Artsakh


On September 19, the annual three-day meeting of priests began in the Armenian Church in Moscow,  under the chairmanship of His Eminence Archbishop Yezras Nersisyan. The diocesan Primate referred to the catastrophic situation created in Artsakh as a result of Azerbaijan's large-scale attack, the aim of which is to depopulate Artsakh with a genocidal policy. The clergymen issued a statement.

Pastoral visit to the Armenian community of Uzbekistan


On September 6, the Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Russia and New Nakhichevan, His Eminence Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan, left for Uzbekistan on a three-day pastoral visit to celebrate the events dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the consecration of the Holy Mother of God Church in Samarkand.

A newly built Armenian church was consecrated in Ulyanovsk


Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Russia and New Nakhichevan His Eminence Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan presided over the consecration ceremony of the newly built Armenian church in the city of Ulyanovsk. The church was built with apricot-colour tuff brought from Armenia. It is located in the center of the city, next to the widest bank of the Volga River.
He named the newly consecrated church after St. Gregory the Illuminator.

The newly built Armenian church in Tyumen was consecrated


The diocesan Primate Ezras, who went to Tyumen on a pastoral visit, was greeted with special concern by the local Armenians. The cause of universal joy was the consecration and opening of the newly built church, which Tyumen Armenians had been waiting for for more than three years.