The premiere of the composition "Graceful, Prayerful" took place at the Armenian Composers' Art Festival


Vache Sharafyan has dedicated a new composition to the 850th anniversary of the death of Saint Nerses the Graceful, Patriarch of All Armenians and the reconsecration of the Mother Cathedral. The premiere of the composition “Merciful, Prayerful” marked the beginning of the 16th Festival of Armenian... more

The Mother See raised the issue of forcibly displaced people from Artsakh and Armenian prisoners of war in Washington


In Washington, D.C., Archbishop Garegin Hambardzumyan participated in the International Religious Freedom Summit and the National Prayer Breakfast. He presented issues related to the fundamental rights of the Armenians forcibly displaced from Artsakh, the need to protect Artsakh’s cultural and... more

Austrian Armenologist proposes including Arakelots Monastery in the list of Europe's most endangered monuments


The 12th-century Arakelots Monastery, a border monastery in the Tavush forests, is located a few kilometers from the villages of Acharkut and Kirants, on the left bank of the Kirants River. Austrian scholar Jasmin Dum Tragut has proposed including the monastery in the list of 14 most endangered... more

Music therapy is organized every week for children with Down syndrome


They listen to and play classical music. The “Music Therapy for Little Ones” program is implemented by specialists. At the initiative of Father Grigor Grigoryan, the “Arev-Children” Children’s Health and Development Center NGO deals with their problems. For five years now, the center has been... more

Students staged a play on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Gyumri Youth Center


At the Vardan Achemyan Drama Theater in Gyumri, students of the Gyumri Youth Center of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin staged the play "The Nest." It is about the journey of an individual who enters the Youth Center and his or her own corner, which resembles a home and a nest. More than 70... more

5 deacons defended their master's theses at Gevorgyan Theological Seminary


Deacons examined the evidentiary layer in Arakel Davrizhetsi's "Book of History", the life and activities of Catholicos Gevorg Chorekchyan, the understanding of the terms Hypostasis and Person in the theological heritage of the Cappadocian Fathers, Armenian ecclesiology in the 12th-13th centuries,... more

Eventful Week


The Pope received a group of Armenian clergy at the residence of St. Martha in the Vatican A solemn reception dedicated to the 33rd anniversary of the formation of the Armenian Armed Forces took place in Athens Employees of the Aragatsotn regional body of the Probation Service visited... more

The Catechumens starts at February 10


The Catechumens fast was established by Gregory the Illuminator. After leaving Khor Virap, he ordered King Trdat and the entire people to repent for five days by fasting. Lenten fast is the first fast of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The forty-day fasts of the Nativity and Transfiguration... more

FAR supports forcibly displaced Artsakh residents living in border settlements of Tavush


The Armenian Relief Fund of the Armenian Apostolic Church is implementing the “Support for Displaced Persons from Nagorno-Karabakh and Host Rural Communities” program for the displaced from Artsakh with the funding of the German Federal Foreign Office. It started in September and will continue... more

Zohrab Erkoyan presented a photo exhibition at the Tekeyan Center on the occasion of Army Day


The author has been in the army since the 1980s. His camera has captured all the settlements of Artsakh, spiritual and cultural monuments, women and clergy serving in the army. Students of Peyo Yavorov Primary School 131 performed a military-patriotic song and dance at the event. This is one of the... more

New appointments of clergy have been made by the patriarchal order of the Catholicos of All Armenians


His Grace Bishop Vardan Navasardyan, having been relieved of his duties as Primate of the Armenian Diocese of the Baltic States, has been appointed to serve as the Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Australia and New Zealand, and Patriarchal Delegate to India and the Far East. Rev. Fr. Shnorhk... more

The official magazine of the Mother See of Armenia, "Echmiadzin", has been published continuously for more than 80 years


With its adopted educational mission and historical, philological, and religious studies, the "Echmiadzin" magazine is the successor to "Ararat", which was published from 1868 to 1919, until the deepening socio-economic crisis in Eastern Armenia and the establishment of the Soviet regime. The... more