Ordinations of Priests Will be Held

Ordinations of Priests Will be Held 11.11.2022

On November 13, with the blessings of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; an ordination of priests will be held in the St. John the Evangelist church of the Masyatsotn Diocese (Artashat City), during the Divine Liturgy.

Five deacons, serving in various structures and dioceses of the Mother See, will be consecrated and ordained to the Holy Order of Priesthood by His Grace Bishop Bagrat Galstanyan, Primate of the Diocese of Tavoush. The Divine Liturgy will start at 10:30.

On November 12, at 17:30 p.m., in St. John the Baptist and St. Vardan Chapel-baptistery of the Mother See, the Service of Candidature of the five deacons serving in various structures and dioceses of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin will be held.

Ordination of Priests will take place on November 13 in Artsakh as well. For the first time an ordination of priesthood will be held in the Holy Mother of God Church in Stepanakert, by the Primate of the Diocese of Artsakh, His Grace Bishop Vrtanes Abrahamyan. Deacon Gor Gyurjian, the director of the Center for Christian Education and Propaganda of the Diocese of Artsakh, received the rank of priesthood.