His Holiness Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, presided over the celebration of Palm Sunday on March 29, at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
Holy Week at St. Vartan Cathedral: March 29 through April 5
Holy Week signals the end of the Lenten period of separation, and a return to the full life of the church. The coming Holy Week will go forward in the Eastern Diocese with in-person worship as well as the online broadcast of services.
Holy Week at St. Vartan Cathedral: March 29 through April 5
Holy Week signals the end of the Lenten period of separation, and a return to the full life of the church. The coming Holy Week will go forward in the Eastern Diocese with in-person worship as well as the online broadcast of services.
Abp. Aykazian Among WCC Leaders Meeting with Pope
The Eastern Diocese’s Legate and Ecumenical Director, Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, was part of a delegation of leaders from the World Council of Churches (WCC) who met with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on February 28.
Assembly of Armenian Church Bishops Meeting in Austria Issues Statement
A special Episcopal Assembly convened this week in St. Pölten, Austria, bringing together 25 archbishops and bishops of the Armenian Church for several days of discussion. To conclude the gathering, the bishops issued a statement, which appears here in English translation and the original Armenian.