This week marks the 24th anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Karekin II. It was on November 4, 1999, that His Holiness was consecrated as the 132nd Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, in a magnificent ceremony at the Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin.
Leaders of Armenian churches in the United States have sent a letter to U.S. President Biden, expressing alarm “with urgency regarding Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh.”
His Holiness Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, offered a special message to Armenian faithful throughout the world on Sunday, October 1, 2023: a day declared as a pan-national “Prayer for Artsakh.”
A message from our Primate, Fr. Mesrop Parsamyan, on “an unutterably sad day, in a painful chapter of Armenian history.” Read more here.
The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin has announced that the Blessing of the Holy Muron ceremony, planned to take place on October 1, has been postponed. Instead on that date, the Mother See will lead worldwide Armenian churches in a pan-national Prayer for Artsakh.
