Ordination of Priests
On November 21 at 10:30 a.m., in St. Gregory the Illuminator Mother Cathedral in Yerevan, a sacrament of ordination and consecration of priests will be offered, with the blessings of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; and by His Grace Bishop Anushavan Jamkochyan, Dean of the Theological Faculty of Yerevan State University and Dean of the St. Gregory the Illuminator Mother Cathedral in Yerevan. 11 deacons serving in various structures and dioceses of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin will be ordained into the Holy Order of the Priesthood. On the evening prior to the ordination, at 5:30 p. m., the service of candidature will be held in St. John the Baptist and St. Vardan Chapel-baptistery of the Mother See.