June 2024

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The relics of the saint were brought to the Khor Virap monastery complex and a festive liturgy was held. The feast coincided with the International Children's Day. We talked with the children in the courtyard of the monastery: who protects them and how, children's opinions varied.
 
64 days after the feast of the Holy Resurrection, the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the feast of the foundation of the Holy Etchmiadzin. This year it is on the second of July. A festive liturgy was held in the Saint Gayane Monastery under the solemnity of the Catholicos of All Armenians.
 
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Applicants take an exam in the subjects of Armenian language, Armenian literature, history of the Armenian people. The first is the examination of the Armenian language. At the final phase of the exams, the members of the seminary inspection conduct an interview with the applicants. They check...
 
On the International Day of Children's Protection, the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and AGBU Vanadzor Youth Center hosted the students of all 7 Youth Center operating in the republic. There are karate, gymnastics, chess, tapestry, classical and national dance classes and many other classes in...
 
On Monday, the church celebrated the feast of the St. Hripsime and her companions, which heralded the beginning of the Araratian week. On May 28, the church celebrated the commemoration of St. Gayane and her companions. The Armenian Patriarch, accompanied by a procession of clergymen, took the...
 
In the Holy Trinity Church of the Beyoglu district of Constantinople, the concert entitled "The Enlightenment torch with Holy Etchmiadzin" was held. The event was dedicated to the Holy Etchmiadzin feast. The feast program was prepared by the class-choir of Lusavorich school. The group celebrating...
 
Beneficiaries of the Vagharshapat charitable organization "Way of Happiness" were baptized in the Church of the Holy Virgin Mary of Etchmiadzin. The organization provides daily day care to 20 beneficiaries aged 18-65 with mental disorders, speech, vision, locomotion and other problems. The...
 
The Jerusalem Heritage Seminary announces admission for the 2024-2025 academic year for Armenians over 15 years of age with secondary and senior general education or other education. To be admitted to the Seminary, the applicants will pass written exams in the subjects of Armenian language,...
 
 
 
The southern altar is named after John the Baptist. The northern altar bears the name of Saint Stephen, the first archdeacon who was martyred for the Christian faith. Both were built in the 17th-18th centuries. In the 1950s, during the restoration of the Temple, the holy tables were damaged. By...
 
Persons up to 35 years of age, with higher education, who are children of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church, can apply for admission to the Priest Accelerated Course in Holy Etchmiadzin. The knowledge of the Holy Book, history of the Armenian Church and the Armenian people, knowledge of Armenian...
 
Historians Hovik Avanesov and Mher Harutyunyan made a historical and comparative analysis of the cultural genocide in Ani and Shushi. They referred to the state policy of destroying Christian values. The report was presented in the Museum of History of Armenia, at the international conference...
 
The Catholicos of All Armenians urged the 40th annual congress of the Diocese of Canada, convened in the Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Toronto, to speak before the Canadian authorities about the Armenian persecution policy of Azerbaijan, to remind them about the occupied Artsakh, forcibly...
 
The annual meeting of the priests of the Armenian Diocese of Russia and New Nakhichevan was held in the Moscow rectory under the chairmanship of His Eminence Archbishop Yezras, which was attended by about 40 clergymen from Crimea, Middle Asia, as well as from different cities of Russia. They...
 
Davit Ananyan, who was wounded by a mine explosion in Talish during the 44-day war, received prosthetics in Austria at the initiative of the Mother See. The hospital expenses of the 6 servicemen who received treatment were covered by the Vincents Group Foundation, and the living expenses were...
 
 
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There are 2 wells inside the Mother Cathedral, one inside the northern depository, the other in front of the altar of Saint Stepanos Proto-deacon, from where believers took water, convinced that it was endowed with the miraculous power of the temple. Since 2012, restoration architect Amiran...
 
Soon, the "Real School" school will teach students with its own textbook by Grabar, which includes fables, modern stories with Grabar translation, excerpts from the works of historians and even Grabar translations of songs by Vysotsky and other authors. The real school operates in Yerevan,...
 
The presentation of the book "Greetings to those reading and listening to my letter" by Father Derenik Sahakyan, a member of the Brotherhood of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, and the premiere of the documentary film of the same name based on the motifs of the book took place. The book is...
 
Every Friday of the academic year, in the Holy Trinity Church of Yerevan, the students of kindergartens, middle, high schools and colleges of the educational complex participate in religious services and liturgies with the teaching choirs. Prayers and hymns are taught in the educational complex...
 
The book contains photographs of khachkars of Armenia, Artsakh, Western Armenia, Nakhichevan, Georgia, Iran, Jerusalem, Saint Petersburg and other places. About 500 khachkars are presented in the newly published book. The author referred to the differences in styles and stone types of historical...
 
 
External threats and internal political developments facing the Motherland are discussed at the Mother See. Questions related to the re-consecration of Holy Etchmiadzin cathedral and the organization of the Blessing of the Holy Muron, ecclesiastical-ideological issues.
 
The members of the Supreme Spiritual Council strongly condemned the steps taken against the participants of the peaceful gathering on June 12. They issued a statement stating that an attempt is being made to silence the righteous grievances of the public against the authorities, which are...
 
In the next 1-2 years, the green area of ​​the Temple will get its complete appearance. At the suggestion of the Patriarch of All Armenians, the landscaping of the Temple was designed with the motifs of Armenian carpet art ornaments. A large team of landscape architects, botanists, and designers...
 
The residents of Ararat started the day in the Holy Savior Church with a festive service. The single-dome, built of black and orange tuff, Saint Holy Savior is the only place of worship in the city, the construction of which took more than 10 years. Adjacent to the church, a candle-lighting hall...
 
Manushak Markosyan, PhD student of Hamburg University, member of Wegner Society, wrote the thesis about Wegner's pro-Armenian activities. Wegner, a great friend of the Armenian people, and Patriarch Vazgen I met and corresponded by letter. In 1968, Armin Wegner visited Soviet Armenia at the...
 
Male citizens under the age of 17 who have completed primary school or transferred to the 11th and 12th grades of high school can apply, also who are children of the Armenian Apostolic Holy church. Applicants will pass a written exam in the subject of Armenian language, orally in the subjects of...
 
The external threats and internal political developments facing the motherland were discussed at the meeting of the Supreme Spiritual Council held in the Mother See on June 11-13. The Supreme Spiritual Council addressed internal political issues, security challenges, and the incident of...
 
After losing his leg on a mine in Mataghis in 2016, Karen Hambardzumyan went to India under the sponsorship of the Armenian Church and got a prosthesis. The program of the Mother See for the treatment and prosthetics of military disabled abroad has been operating since 2016. About 30 servicemen...
 
Mashtots Matenadaran hosted the participants of the "Armen" scientific research project at the University of Florence, funded by the European Council, who participated in a two-day workshop on "Armenia and Armenians in the World Middle Ages" with more than ten researchers of the Matenadaran....
 
 
 
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The examinations of Armenian language and Armenian literature have been completed at Gevorgyan Seminary. On June 15, the applicants took an exam on Armenian history, and also met with the seminary's inspectorate. At the final stage of the exams, during the interview, attention is paid to the...
 
In Hovhanavank, the Primate of Aragatsotn Diocese, Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan, made an order to inspect the Acolytes. 25 ministers serving in the churches of Teger, Oshakan, Aparan, Mughnu, Byurakan, Ashtarak, Hovhannavank, Talin and Kosh received the rank of Acolytes. The Acolytes degree is...
 
With the blessing of the Catholicos of All Armenians, an offering ceremony was held in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. The Celebrant Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan, Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the USA, addressed questions to the priests. The deacons testified that they are steadfast in the...
 
The first solo exhibition of the artist, architect Lusine Danielyan, dedicated to the Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin, was opened in the Ruben Sevak Museum. The artist created these works in a very short time, inspired by the picture book "Bright and beautiful Holy Etchmiadzin" published months ago...
 
 
 
The Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II received the members of the district council of the Holy Church of Beyoglu region, who came to Armenia from Constantinople on a pilgrimage, at the Mother See. The group of Armenian pilgrims from Constantinople spent five days in Armenia, visited various...
 
On the feast dedicated to the creation of Armenian writings, a festive liturgy was held in the St. Mesrop Mashtots Church of Oshakan under the leadership of Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan. Traditionally, on this day, the already literate first graders visit the St. Mashtots Church. The clergyman urged...
 
Karo Movsisyan, a 7-year-old student of the chess class of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and AGBU Nork Youth Center, took an honorable position in the Armenian chess championship for under eight-year-olds. The class has fifty chess players in different age groups. They participate in...
 
 
 
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On the initiative of the Armenian Relief Fund of the Armenian Orthodox Church, a therapeutic horticultural area will be created in the Botanical Garden of Yerevan. On this occasion, a running competition was organized, the participation fees of which were directed to the establishment of the area...
 
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...
 
The Feast of the Discovery of St. Mary’s Box has appeared in the Armenian church calendar since the 18th century. In 1774, it was included in the calendar compiled by the Catholicos Simeon of Yerevan. The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the Mobile Feast on the fifth Sunday of Advent. During...
 
Around 600 students from different cities and villages with their teachers and spiritual pastors raised a prayer under the arches of the Saint Mesrop Mashtots Church and asked for the intercession of the holy teachers for their future lives.
 
The relic of St. Stepanos will be brought from Holy Etchmiatsin. The Aragatsotn Diocese invites everyone to participate in the festive liturgy.
 
 
 
 
From 2023, the Armenian "Round Table" Foundation of the World Council of Churches started the three-year program "Civic Education in Regions", which includes Shirak, Lori and Tavush regions. The implementation of the project is also supported by the dioceses and their affiliated social centers....
 
The Catholicos of All Armenians urged the priests participating in the Priest Accelerated Course to jointly reflect on the issues affecting the national life. His Holiness expressed concern regarding the challenges facing the country, social problems of Artsakh Armenians and dangerous...
 
Currently, 62 students are studying in the higher educational institutions of the Mother See - Gevorgyan Seminary, Vazgenyan Seminary in Sevan, the Priest Accelerated course and Trbanchyan Seminary in Harich. His Holiness  urged the professors to maintain high quality of education, expressed...
 
29 years ago, Catholicos Karegin I re-consecrated the Saint Hovhannes the Baptist Church of Melikgyogh, which had been desecrated for more than 60 years. It was built in 1891 by immigrants from Alashkert. In 1935, by order of the Kurdish authorities, it ceased to function and turned into a...