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  • 27 New Deacons Ordained in Holy Etchmiadzin

    PRESS RELEASE
    Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Information Services
    Address: Vagharshapat, Republic of Armenia
    Contact: Rev. Fr. Ktrij Devejian
    Tel: (374 10) 517 163
    Fax: (374 10) 517 301
    E-Mail: [email protected]
    Website: http://www.armenianchurch.org/
    October 11, 2006

    27 New Deacons Ordained in Holy Etchmiadzin

    During the celebration of Divine Liturgy in the Mother Cathedral of Holy
    Etchmiadzin, twenty seven senior classmen of the Gevorkian Theological
    Seminary were ordained to the diaconate on Sunday, October 8, 2006.

    The celebrant and ordaining bishop, His Grace Bishop Paren Avedikian,
    granted the lowest of the holy orders to the young men who shall be
    graduating from seminary this spring.

    His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians,
    presided during the liturgy and the luncheon organized in honor of the new
    deacons in the refectory of the Mother See.

    The following morning, His Holiness Karekin II received the newly ordained
    deacons and gave them his pontifical blessing and exhortation.

    Upon completion of the current academic year, the deacons must defend their
    graduation theses, whereupon they shall be appointed to serve in the various
    dioceses and organizations of the Armenian Church.
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