The Eastern Diocese is pleased to announce that scholar Jesse Arlen has been named as the first “Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Armenian Christian Studies, and Director at the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center.”
Watch Church Services Online
The Eastern Diocese’s Facebook page is sharing live and recorded broadcasts of church services for the Feast of Holy Etchmiadzin, June 6.
WATCH LIVE: Ordination to the Priesthood, June 4-5
A special celebration will take place in the Eastern Diocese this weekend, as Dn. Michael Sabounjian is ordained as a priest of the Armenian Church, by the hand of Bishop Daniel.
Fr. Nigoghos Aznavourian Ordained to the Priesthood in Springfield, MA
The ordination of a new priest of the Armenian Church was a memorable “first” for the Diocesan parish in Springfield, MA.
Memorials and Memory
In the Armenian Church, memorial days of one kind or another are quite common: we observe merelots after the major feast days; we remember our departed loved ones on the karasoonk of their passing, and thereafter through annual hokehankisd services.