The Catholicos of All Armenians Met with the Clergymen who completed the Priest Accelerated Course at the Mother See
27.10.2023
On October 27, in “Garegin I” Educational Center of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; met with the priests who completed the three-week Priest Accelerated Course, who arrived from different dioceses of Armenia and the Diaspora.
With the blessing of the Catholicos of All Armenians, these Accelerated courses, which started on October 10 of this year, will be periodic. The program is coordinated by His Grace Bishop Vahan Hovhannisyan, Director of the "Garegin I" educational center of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
The participating clergy have the opportunity to refresh their theological, liturgical and historical knowledge.
At the meeting, His Holiness, conveying his blessing to the spiritual fathers, inquired about the progress of the training program. The Catholicos of All Armenians highlighted these accelerated courses, which provide an opportunity for clergy from different dioceses to come together, pray together, exchange spiritual experience, as well as discuss the current challenges facing the Church and society and ways to overcome them.
In his remarks, the Armenian Patriarch urged the churchmen to carry out a caring mission towards the depatriated Artsakh citizens and to make every effort to provide assistance to them.
His Holiness told the priests to continue their devoted service to the nation, motherland and Church with high consciousness and unconditional dedication.
