His Holiness Karekin II Defrocked Rev. Fr. Khoren Hovhannisyan
20.06.2017
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, has issued a Pontifical Order whereby Rev. Fr. Khoren Hovahnnisyan (Armenian Diocese of Georgia) has been defrocked.
The application of Rev. Fr. Khoren Hovahnnisyan, submitted by His Grace Bishop Vasken Mirzakhanyan, Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Georgia, and the conclusions of an investigation by the Disciplinary Committee of the Mother See, has served as the basis for the defrockment of Fr. Khoren.
As of this day, the derocked clergymen is a member of the laity and shall be known by his baptismal name of Nshan Hovhannisyan.
