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ARMENIAN PRIEST ORDAINED FOR FIRST TIME IN NORTH CAROLINA SUNDAY
11:39, 08 Dec 2014
Members of St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church in Charlotte witnessed
North Carolina religious history Sunday with the ordination of their
deacon, Benjamin Rith-Najarian, to the holy priesthood. It was the
first time an Armenian priest has ever been ordained in the state,
the Charlottee Observer reports.
Presiding over the sacred service in the church on Park Road was New
York-based Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, who heads the Eastern Diocese
of the Armenian Church of America.
About 150 Charlotte families call St. Sarkis their spiritual home,
and Rith-Najarian is their pastor. The church is one of 62 parishes and
missions in the Eastern Diocese. The Armenian Church of America is an
Orthodox Christian church whose members trace their roots to Armenia,
a country at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe.
Armenia adopted Christianity as its official religion in the year 301,
and the national church is one of the world's oldest.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/12/08/armenian-priest-ordained-for-first-time-in-north-carolina-sunday/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBa-lApkXpg
11:39, 08 Dec 2014
Members of St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church in Charlotte witnessed
North Carolina religious history Sunday with the ordination of their
deacon, Benjamin Rith-Najarian, to the holy priesthood. It was the
first time an Armenian priest has ever been ordained in the state,
the Charlottee Observer reports.
Presiding over the sacred service in the church on Park Road was New
York-based Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, who heads the Eastern Diocese
of the Armenian Church of America.
About 150 Charlotte families call St. Sarkis their spiritual home,
and Rith-Najarian is their pastor. The church is one of 62 parishes and
missions in the Eastern Diocese. The Armenian Church of America is an
Orthodox Christian church whose members trace their roots to Armenia,
a country at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe.
Armenia adopted Christianity as its official religion in the year 301,
and the national church is one of the world's oldest.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/12/08/armenian-priest-ordained-for-first-time-in-north-carolina-sunday/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBa-lApkXpg