His Holiness Karekin II Defrocks Rev. Fr. Kirakos Aghosyan

His Holiness Karekin II Defrocks Rev. Fr. Kirakos Aghosyan 17.04.2023

On April 14, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; has issued a Pontifical Order whereby Rev. Fr. Kirakos Aghosyan has been defrocked. 

The mediation submitted by His Eminence Archbishop Yezras Nersisyan, Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Russia and New Nakhichevan, and the conclusion of an investigation by the Disciplinary Committee of the Mother See; has served as the basis for the defrockment of Fr. Kirakos.