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For Immediate Use - Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Tel: (+961- 4) 410001, 410003
Fax: (+961- 4) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Reverends Housig And Magar Elevated To The Rank Of Vartabet
(Doctor Of The Church)
On Saturday 30 November 2013, at Gregory of Nareg Hall of the Bishops
compound in Antelias, Reverends Housig Mardirossian and Magar Ashkarian
presented their theses to His Holiness Aram I and defended them in the
presence of the members of the brotherhood.
Rev. Housig analyzed the correspondence of Patriarch Sahak II during the
period 1914 - 1936, from the Genocide and the exile of the Catholicosate of
Cilicia from Sis (Cilicia) to its resettlement in Antelias Lebanon. In his
thesis, Rev. Magar studied the Armenian Patristic writings on the "Ever
Virginity of the Theotokos". After praising their research, His Holiness
granted them the degree Vartabet and recommended that they rewrite their
theses for publication in a style to make it accessible to lay readers. Rev.
Ghevont Pentezian and Varant Kortmezian read the Pontifical letters
elevating the priests to the rank of Vartabet.
During the Holy Liturgy on Sunday at the St. Gregory the Illuminator
Cathedral, the celebrant Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian, Prelate of Tehran,
blessed the new Vartabets according to tradition of the Church and raised
them to the rank of Very Reverend. In his message he emphasized the new
responsibilities that accompanied the title.
At the end of the Liturgy, His Holiness received the Archbishop and the
new Vartabets in his office for a final blessing.
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Photo
http://armenianorthodoxchurch.org/gallery-2
From: A. Papazian
For Immediate Use - Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Tel: (+961- 4) 410001, 410003
Fax: (+961- 4) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Reverends Housig And Magar Elevated To The Rank Of Vartabet
(Doctor Of The Church)
On Saturday 30 November 2013, at Gregory of Nareg Hall of the Bishops
compound in Antelias, Reverends Housig Mardirossian and Magar Ashkarian
presented their theses to His Holiness Aram I and defended them in the
presence of the members of the brotherhood.
Rev. Housig analyzed the correspondence of Patriarch Sahak II during the
period 1914 - 1936, from the Genocide and the exile of the Catholicosate of
Cilicia from Sis (Cilicia) to its resettlement in Antelias Lebanon. In his
thesis, Rev. Magar studied the Armenian Patristic writings on the "Ever
Virginity of the Theotokos". After praising their research, His Holiness
granted them the degree Vartabet and recommended that they rewrite their
theses for publication in a style to make it accessible to lay readers. Rev.
Ghevont Pentezian and Varant Kortmezian read the Pontifical letters
elevating the priests to the rank of Vartabet.
During the Holy Liturgy on Sunday at the St. Gregory the Illuminator
Cathedral, the celebrant Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian, Prelate of Tehran,
blessed the new Vartabets according to tradition of the Church and raised
them to the rank of Very Reverend. In his message he emphasized the new
responsibilities that accompanied the title.
At the end of the Liturgy, His Holiness received the Archbishop and the
new Vartabets in his office for a final blessing.
# #
Photo
http://armenianorthodoxchurch.org/gallery-2
From: A. Papazian