Armenian Apostolic Holy Church The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

On December 25, the Feast of St. Stephen the Protodeacon and First Martyr; the sacrament of ordination deacons was offered in the St. Gregory the Illuminator Mother Cathedral in Yerevan during Divine Liturgy, under the presidency of His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians. The celebrant was His Grace Bishop Hovnan Hakobyan, Grand Sacristan of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. . His Grace ordained 35 students from the Gevorkian Seminary and Priest's Accelerated Course into the Deaconate.