RELIGIOUS LEADERS KAREKIN II, ARAM I TO ATTEND ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LITURGY IN ROME
16:15, 31 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
On 12 April, all Armenian communities will ideally be present in St.
Peter's Basilica, in Rome, where Pope Francis will celebrate a mass
for faithful of the Armenian rite to commemorate the Genocide, the
Vatican Insider reports.
The liturgy will be presided over by Pope Francis on Divine Mercy
Sunday, with the participation of Armenian Catholic patriarch Nerses
Bedros XIX along with Armenian Catholic bishops.
Armenian sources told Vatican Insider that unless there are any last
minute changes, the two highest representatives of the Armenian
Apostolic Church will also be present: Patriarch Karekin II and
Catholicos Aram I who heads the Catholicosate of the Great House of
Cilicia based in Antelias, Lebanon.
In the context of the church, the commemoration of the 100th
anniversary of the "Great Evil" will culminate in the liturgy for
the canonization of victims of the Armenian Genocide scheduled for
23 April in Yerevan at the Patriarchal see of the Catholicosate of
Etchmiadzin headed by Patriarch Karekin II. 38 Churches, ecclesial
communities and ecumenical bodies have confirmed that a delegation
will be present at the canonization rite. That same day, at 19:15 -
which is symbolic of the year 1915 - all Armenian churches around
the world - except those on Turkish territory - will ring their bells
100 times to commemorate the centenary of the Genocide.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/03/31/religious-leaders-karekin-ii-aram-i-to-attend-armenian-genocide-liturgy-in-rome/
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