27 New Deacons Ordained in Holy Etchmiadzin
During the celebration of Divine Liturgy in the Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin, twenty seven senior classmen of the Gevorkian Theological Seminary were ordained to the diaconate on Sunday, October 8, 2006.
The celebrant and ordaining bishop, His Grace Bishop Paren Avedikian, granted the lowest of the holy orders to the young men who shall be graduating from seminary this spring.
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, presided during the liturgy and the luncheon organized in honor of the new deacons in the refectory of the Mother See.
The following morning, His Holiness Karekin II received the newly ordained deacons and gave them his pontifical blessing and exhortation.
Upon completion of the current academic year, the deacons must defend their graduation theses, whereupon they shall be appointed to serve in the various dioceses and organizations of the Armenian Church.
