From May 7-9, Karekin II the Catholicos of All Armenians paid a fraternal visit to Vatican. On May 7 the Armenian Patriarch had a meeting with the Pope Francis in the Apostolic Palace Library and invited the Pontiff of the Catholic Church to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin in 2015 to commemorate the 100th years of the Armenian Genocide.
Under the presidency of Pope Francis and Catholicos Karekin II, a united prayer was extended from the Redemptoris Mater Chapel, for world peace.
On May 8, the Catholicos of All Armenians visited the Armenian Embassy at the Holy See accompanied by a delegation and had meetings with a number of officials.
The Patriarch of All Armenians visited St. Peter’s Basilica accompanied by a delegation, and later on he visited the cemetaries of the Popes Hovhannes XXIII and John Paul II recently canonized by the Catholic Church.
In front of the monument of St. Gregory the Illuminator, the Armenian Patriarch, a prayer was extended.
