Diocesan Primate Fr. Mesrop Parsamyan will preside over the Feast of Sts. Vartanantz at New York’s St. Vartan Cathedral on Thursday, February 16, 2023.
A Voice from the 5th Century: St. Ghevont’s Address to Armenia’s Christian Soldiers
In honor of the Armenian Church’s “Feast of St. Ghevont and His Companions” (Feb. 13, 2023), read the oration Ghevont delivered before Vartan and his 66,000-man army, on the eve of the Battle of Avarayr in A.D 451—retold in English for a modern readership.
The Miraculous Story of St. Voski
The story of a resurrected deer may be our earliest account of the evangelization of the Armenians. The Armenian Church remembers that story with an annual feast day.
Way of a Warrior: St. Sarkis
He would become a figure of enduring spiritual stature in the Armenian Church. But he began his sojourn among our people as a stranger. On Saturday, February 4, we will honor his memory once more—some 17 centuries after his death
Two Armenian Patriarchs Meet in Jerusalem
This week, the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem welcomed a distinguished visitor in the person of His Beatitude Archbishop Sahak II Mashalian, the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. Patriarch Sahak arrived at the head of a delegation of Armenian clergy and pilgrims from his home city,