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  • Communique FRA :Resignation Of Archbishop Zakarian Norvan

    COMMUNIQUE FRA :RESIGNATION OF ARCHBISHOP ZAKARIAN NORVAN

    [ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]

    FRA Dachnaktsoutioun wishes to express its deepest concern following
    the resignation of Norvan Bishop Zakarian, Primate of the Armenian
    Church of France. The resignation of Bishop is an exceptional fact,
    major, serious, serious consequences.

    Unprecedented in France.

    Unquestioned moral authority, Bishop Zakarian Norvan fulfills its
    mission in France for 45 years. It was the most legitimate successor
    to Bishop Kude Naccachian and 7 years in which he accomplished his
    mission showed he had the stature, legitimacy, the spirit of gathering,
    but also the concern of the action for the Armenian cause.

    The relationship between Church and Armenian associations in France
    were very good. He had the respect of all and each. Norvan Bishop
    Zakarian was unanimous. It is rare enough to emphasize.

    FRA Dachnaktsoutioun wished to understand the real reasons for this
    resignation. It is why we react as two weeks after the resignation of
    the head of the Church Armenian France. We studied all the documents
    that allow us to better understand the underlying motivations of
    resignation that will affect the Armenian community of France. We
    also read the explanations by the Diocesan Council as well as those
    who hold in the hierarchy the Church.

    Today, we have become convinced to refuse any waffling on this matter
    before the gravity is still widely underestimated. It now seems clear
    that the real detonator of the resignation of Bishop Norvan Zakarian
    is the mode of governance imposed by Catholicos of Echmiadzin, the
    Armenian Church of France. A very centralized management that based
    on an authoritarian approach hinging on numerous abuses of power.

    Interventionism and authoritarianism of Catholicos Karekin II are out
    with the way legal and traditional functioning of the Armenian Church
    and are unacceptable for the head of Armenian Church of France. And
    it took these authoritarian practices of Etchmiadzin accompanied by
    humiliation of Catholicos Karekin II against Monsignor Norvan Zakarian.

    Today the situation is very critical! The succession begins to organize
    and risk is larger than the next Primate is, in fact, imposed by
    the Catholicos to impose the Armenian community of France direct
    governance of Echmiadzin. This hypothesis would totally unacceptable
    to the Armenian community in France and could revive the divisions
    a past. However, any election of a complete fabrication by the
    Catholicos, will encounter, inexorably, to the opposition of a large
    part of the Armenian community of France.

    This is why the FRA Dachnaktsoutioun advocates appeasement and
    appeals to all stakeholders for the future is preserved. One solution
    is needed today as an act of reason: even though he announced his
    resignation was irrevocable, it must convince Bishop Zakarian Norvan
    to reconsider his resignation to start on a new mandate and at the
    same time, begin a dialogue with the Catholicos to accept, in turn,
    respect the Diocese of France with his leadership and spiritual leader.

    FRA Dachnaktsoutioun - Western Europe Paris, 17
    July 2013 Dachnaktsoutioun FRA-17 Blue Street 75009
    [email protected]

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