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  • EasternDiocese
  • January 16, 2017
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On Friday, January 6, worshippers gathered at New York’s St. Vartan Cathedral for the observance of the Feast of the Nativity and Theophany of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), celebrated the Divine Liturgy and delivered a sermon that touched on the economic and security concerns people face in today’s society.

He said that despite the many worldly troubles that exist today, “God understands all these concerns—and still He has called us, to perform His will in the world.”

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  • EasternDiocese
  • December 20, 2016
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By Florence Avakian

On Thursday, December 8, the Eastern Diocese’s Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center presented a screening of the documentary “Havresc: Stand on Courage,” examining the daily struggles of Armenian and Assyrian Christian Iraqis and the village they built on the edge of ISIS-controlled territory.

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  • EasternDiocese
  • December 1, 2016
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From November 18 to 20, 60 young adults from some 20 parishes across the Eastern Diocese gathered at Camp Washington in Lakeside, CT, for the annual ACYOA Seniors Leadership Conference. This year, 60 percent of the participants were first-time attendees of the Leadership Conference.

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  • EasternDiocese
  • November 16, 2016
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Saturday, November 12 marked the long-awaited opening of the new campus of St. Nersess Seminary in Armonk, NY. His Holiness Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, officiated over the ceremonies.

He was assisted by Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Eastern Diocese and President of the seminary, and Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, Primate of the Western Diocese.

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  • EasternDiocese
  • November 2, 2016
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Under the presidency of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, more than a dozen Armenian bishops and lay leaders from around the world gathered this week for a meeting of the Supreme Spiritual Council: the ecclesiastical governing body of the Armenian Church.

In an unprecedented turn, the meeting convened in New York city, at the headquarters of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America: the first time the body has met away from Armenia.

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