Having returned to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin after his brief trip to the United States, His Holiness Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, communicated this week with Diocesan Primate the Very Rev. Fr. Daniel Findikyan,
Diocesan Primate the Very Rev. Fr. Daniel Findikyan announced last week that he has appointed the Very Rev. Fr. Mesrop Parsamyan as the new Vicar of St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral.
It was an afternoon of great anticipation on Wednesday, September 26, as New York’s St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral awaited the arrival of Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Held up for display before the crowd of expectant onlookers was an eight-inch silver cross—one unlike any other.
Embedded within its central gemstone was a tiny sliver of wood: a holy relic of the True Cross of Jesus Christ—the cross Jesus carried to Golgotha, and on which he was crucified.
Educators representing nine Diocesan Armenian schools attended the annual “Armenian Teachers Symposium,” on Saturday, September 8, at the Diocesan Center in New York.
