The Armenian Church calendar occasionally gives us an unlikely pairing of saints on a single feast day: an “odd couple” who don’t quite fit together. That’s the case with the day dedicated to St. John the Forerunner and Job the Righteous—observed this year on September 4.
In Stockholm, Sweden, church leaders and advocates from around the world gathered last week to mark the centennial of a formative event in the modern ecumenical movement.
This year the Armenian Church liturgical calendar designates August 28 as the feast of St. Jeremiah: one of the major prophets of the Bible.
Feasts venerating the Virgin Mary occupy an entire season in the church calendar, with a special day reserved to honor her parents.
Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan, Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, was in Romania earlier this month, in the company of Mr. and Mrs. Hagop and Ica Kouyoumdjian.
