New Appointment and Defrockment

New Appointment and Defrockment 04.12.2023

By Pontifical order of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; from December 1 of this year, Hayk Gazazyan was reinstated in the priestly order as Reverend Father Norayr Gazazyan and has been appointed to serve in the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America.

By the Pontifical Order and according to his application, Rev. Fr. Aghan Yernjakyan, member of the Brotherhood of the Mother See has been defrocked. As of this day, the defrocked clergyman is a member of the laity and shall be known by his baptismal name of  Levon Yernjakyan.