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His Eminence Yezras presented the construction work of the Armenian churches under construction in Surgut, Khabarovsk, Volgograd, and Minsk. In 2024, four churches were consecrated in the diocese: in the Altai Territory, Rostov-on-Don, Voronezh, and Izhevsk, the capital of Udmurtia. This year,...
 After a five-year hiatus, the Mashtots Matenadaran has published the 11th volume of the Mother List of Armenian Manuscripts. The editors of the volume are Gevorg Ter-Vardanyan and Gurgen Gasparyan. The 300 manuscripts are extensive descriptions of 312 manuscripts and 3 printed books included in the...
 With its adopted educational mission and historical, philological, and religious studies, the "Echmiadzin" magazine is the successor to "Ararat", which was published from 1868 to 1919, until the deepening socio-economic crisis in Eastern Armenia and the establishment of the Soviet regime. The...
His Grace Bishop Vardan Navasardyan, having been relieved of his duties as Primate of the Armenian Diocese of the Baltic States, has been appointed to serve as the Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Australia and New Zealand, and Patriarchal Delegate to India and the Far East. Rev. Fr. Shnorhk...
The members of the Catholicosate of the Mother See and the Great House of Cilicia participated in the Liturgy at the Church of St. Vlas in Rome
The representative of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem participated in the ecumenical ceremony at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
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 The author has been in the army since the 1980s. His camera has captured all the settlements of Artsakh, spiritual and cultural monuments, women and clergy serving in the army. Students of Peyo Yavorov Primary School 131 performed a military-patriotic song and dance at the event. This is one of the...
The Pope received a group of Armenian clergy at the residence of St. Martha in the Vatican
A solemn reception dedicated to the 33rd anniversary of the formation of the Armenian Armed Forces took place in Athens
Employees of the Aragatsotn regional body of the Probation Service visited the...
 The Armenian Relief Fund of the Armenian Apostolic Church is implementing the “Support for Displaced Persons from Nagorno-Karabakh and Host Rural Communities” program for the displaced from Artsakh with the funding of the German Federal Foreign Office. It started in September and will continue...
 Deacons examined the evidentiary layer in Arakel Davrizhetsi's "Book of History", the life and activities of Catholicos Gevorg Chorekchyan, the understanding of the terms Hypostasis and Person in the theological heritage of the Cappadocian Fathers, Armenian ecclesiology in the 12th-13th centuries,...
 The Catechumens fast was established by Gregory the Illuminator. After leaving Khor Virap, he ordered King Trdat and the entire people to repent for five days by fasting. Lenten fast is the first fast of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The forty-day fasts of the Nativity and Transfiguration...
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The 12th-century Arakelots Monastery, a border monastery in the Tavush forests, is located a few kilometers from the villages of Acharkut and Kirants, on the left bank of the Kirants River. Austrian scholar Jasmin Dum Tragut has proposed including the monastery in the list of 14 most endangered...
 They listen to and play classical music. The “Music Therapy for Little Ones” program is implemented by specialists. At the initiative of Father Grigor Grigoryan, the “Arev-Children” Children’s Health and Development Center NGO deals with their problems. For five years now, the center has been...
 At the Vardan Achemyan Drama Theater in Gyumri, students of the Gyumri Youth Center of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin staged the play "The Nest." It is about the journey of an individual who enters the Youth Center and his or her own corner, which resembles a home and a nest. More than 70...
 In Washington, D.C., Archbishop Garegin Hambardzumyan participated in the International Religious Freedom Summit and the National Prayer Breakfast. He presented issues related to the fundamental rights of the Armenians forcibly displaced from Artsakh, the need to protect Artsakh’s cultural and...
 Vache Sharafyan has dedicated a new composition to the 850th anniversary of the death of Saint Nerses the Graceful, Patriarch of All Armenians and the reconsecration of the Mother Cathedral. The premiere of the composition “Merciful, Prayerful” marked the beginning of the 16th Festival of Armenian...
40 days after the Nativity, the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the feast of the Presentation of the Baby Jesus to the Temple, known as the Presentation of the Lord. The pre-feast is celebrated on the evening of February 13. At the end of the liturgy, according to folk custom, a bonfire is...
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 Members of the "Elderly Love Union", established months ago at the Holy Trinity Church in Yerevan, together with members of the Ladies' Union, youth, and Sunday school students, prepared an event ahead of the feast of St. Sarkis, the patron saint of love, and called it "The Mechanics of Love." Each...
The Artsakh couple has had to overcome many trials in recent years, going through the horrors of war, blockade, and forced displacement. Now they are trying to adapt to the new situation: the husband works, the wife takes care of their first child.
The liturgy was followed by the pre-holiday service, then the first Andastan Order of the year took place. Under the leadership of the Patriarch of All Armenians, the four corners of the world, the Republic of Armenia, the Armenian Patriarchate, monasteries, all settlements and people were...
Saint Sarkis the Warrior is considered the patron saint of young people. By the decree of His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, the feast has been declared a day of blessing for young people. On that day, a liturgy is served in churches named after the Saint, after which a...
Members of the "Masunk" traditional song and dance ensemble sang songs dedicated to the Presentation of our Lord to the Temple around a bonfire in the courtyard of the Holy Mother of God Church in Nork Marash. Members of the church's youth union are also in this ensemble. The ensemble members...
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The relic-bearing right hand of the commander Sargis, as well as the Gospel, preserved in the 17th century St. Sarkis Church and kept in the Matenadaran, and the Cross of Ashot the Iron, which was in the army during the days of difficult trials, were taken from the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin...
Pilgrims from Masyatsotn and other dioceses, led by priests, gathered at the St. Sarkis Church in Argavand to participate in the festive liturgy and renew their vows with the intercession of the saint. At the end of the liturgy, those present partook of a meal. Later, during the Sunday liturgy,...
The large procession of pilgrims gathered in the courtyard of the Holy Etchmiadzin Church in Havlabar, receiving the blessing of the priests of the diocese, visited the Armenian holy places of Tbilisi under the leadership of the spiritual fathers. The believers went to the ruins of the ruined and...
For ten consecutive years, with the blessing of the Patriarch of All Armenians and the initiative of Archbishop Navasard Kchoyan, on the occasion of the feast of St. Sarkis, a ceremony of awarding and encouraging servicemen and spiritual servants has been held at the Primate's Office of the...
For the first time, under the patriarchal direction of His Holiness the Catholicos of All Armenians and with the blessing of Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan, Primate of the Aragatsotn Diocese, the relic-bearing right hand of the commander Sargis was taken from the Mother See to the St. Sargis Church in...
The National Gallery of Armenia has exhibited the icon of "Saint Sarkis" by an unknown Armenian artist. The canvas depicts one of the most beloved saints of the Armenian Church, the Warrior Sarkis and his son Martiros, who were martyred for the sake of Christianity. The canvas is the only work...
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 The memory of St. Sarkis the Warrior was incensed in the Cathedral of Saints Jacob in Jerusalem
Newlyweds were blessed on the feast of the Presentation at the St. Yeghishe Armenian Church in London
The pre-holiday of the Presentation was celebrated at the St. Sarkis Church in Damascus under the...
About fifty academicians of Armenian origin gathered in the church's ceremonial hall. The diocesan Primate, Archbishop Yezras Nersisyan, noted that it is through their service that humanity experiences spiritual and intellectual development, and countries progress. During the evening, students...
Vahe Torosyan, Deputy Director of the Mashtots Matenadaran for Scientific Affairs, delivered a lecture on the topic “The Catholicosate of Aghvan or Gandzasar in the Hierarchical System of the Armenian Church.” The historian touched upon the place and interrelationships of the Aghvan episcopate,...
 The museum presented the violin of composer and conductor Barsegh Kanachyan, which his father bought with great hardship. Kanachyan was one of Komitas' five gifted students. The composer's choral works, solo songs written to the words of Armenian poets, arrangements of patriotic songs, and children...
Melania Sargsyan and Anna Shahbazyan, students of the Gyumri Youth Center, took 1st place. The Gyumri Youth Center of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin has art and sports classes. There are currently 230 students in nine classes.
The Youth Center was opened in 2014 under the patronage of His...
The Director of the Central Office of the World Youth Union of the Armenian Church, Archimandrite Tovma Khachatryan, urged the young people gathered from different dioceses of Artsakh and Armenia to remain in the Divine mystery, to follow their dreams, ignoring all challenges.
The relic of Saint Sarkis the Warrior, enshrined in a right-shaped reliquary, was taken from the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin to the Saint Sarkis Church in the village of Vostan, Masyatsotn Diocese, on February 16, and a liturgy was celebrated. For two years now, a liturgy has been celebrated...
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 He donated about a hundred titles of literature from the Mother See's publications and an equal number of Armenological literature. The Soldier's House has a library, where the boys have the opportunity to get acquainted with selected contemporary world literature and find books in their field of...
 The exhibition featured works by students studying in the painting and applied arts classes of the Youth Centers. Hundreds of students and teachers from eight Youth Centers operating in Armenia had the opportunity to present the results of their daily creative work in their educational institutions...
 Cafesjian Center and Shahid Chamran University donate books to Vache and Tamar Manoukian MatenadaranOn the occasion of Book Donation Day, the Khoy “Culture and Sports Center” NGO organized a Tumanyan matinee at the Vache and Tamar Manoukian Matenadaran of the Mother See. The Cafesjian Center for the Arts and the Shahid Chamran University of Iran donated books to the Vache and Tamar Manoukian...
 The authors are students of the Yerevan Matenadaran's "Art of Blooming" miniature painting studio, who meet once a week. They study what blooming is, what miniature painters bloomed in the Middle Ages, get acquainted with the history of miniature painting, preserved manuscripts, and the works of...
 On Hovhannes Tumanyan's birthday, members of the Georgian-Armenian community and the spiritual fathers of the diocese visited the grave of the All-Armenian poet, who rests in the Pantheon of Armenian Writers and Public Figures in Tbilisi. The 156th anniversary of the birth of the All-Armenian poet...
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 The reason is the community debts that have allegedly arisen since 1994, about which the Patriarchate has not received notifications. In order to avoid paying the astronomical amount, the city administration is trying to seize the property that the Armenian Patriarchate has been in charge of for...
This year marks the 165th anniversary of the birth of the renowned artist and intellectual Vardges Surenyants. Surenyants was born in 1860, into the family of the elder priest Hakob. The works of Vardges Surenyants and other prominent Armenian artists of the 18th-20th centuries are exhibited at...
 A digital platform has been created for the people of Artsakh with a research grant provided by AGBUThe project "Artsakh: My Childhood Street: 101 Stories" is a digital platform that presents the stories of 101 Artsakh children aged 5-15. In addition to the fact-finding function, the platform is also a networked community for Artsakh children, where Artsakh residents in different parts of the...
 The entire archive of Ruben Sevak was collected by his nephew, Hovhannes Chilinkiryan. In 2013, through the efforts of the Patriarch of All Armenians, the MASE became the final resting place of Ruben Sevak. The museum tells its visitors about Ruben Sevak's literary and social activities; at the...
 The school operates in Odessa, it is located on the Gagarin plateau, between the Armenian church and the Armenian cultural center, not far from the seashore. The Armenian community of Odessa built the school on the parish territory belonging to the St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Apostolic...
 On the day of remembrance of the Saints Ghevond the Priest and His Companions, the clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church traditionally gathers in the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin. A Divine Liturgy is served, at the end of which a priestly gathering takes place. The problems facing the clergy, as...
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On the occasion of the day, a festive service was held at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, during which the Pontifical Wish and an award ceremony were held. The award ceremony was presided over by the Patriarch of All Armenians. This year, 34 clergymen were awarded, 5 of whom received the rank...
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 A liturgy was served in the Mother Cathedral in memory of Saint Vartan the Warrior and 1036 soldiersThe feast of St. Vardan and his Companions is a national and church feast. The soldiers who died on the Avarayr field in 451 are considered the Holy Martyrs of the homeland. They fought and died for the sake of faith, Armenian identity and homeland, unhesitatingly sacrificing their lives for the...
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 The Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Damascus participated in the Syrian National Dialogue Conference
The Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Great Britain participated in the opening of a new church of the Eastern Assyrian community in London
The Catholic world prays for the recovery of Pope...
Great Lent precedes the feast of the Holy Resurrection of Jesus Christ and lasts 48 days. The curtains of the tabernacle will be closed during the Liturgy on Barekendan itself and will remain closed throughout Lent; communion will not be given, except on a few feasts.
The Armenian Patriarch considered training courses important, during which, in parallel with acquiring new knowledge, priests are able to renew their vows and be strengthened by the sacrament of Holy Etchmiadzin. The course also provides a good opportunity to share pastoral experience with each...
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