Catholic World News
Jan 20 2005

Armenian patriarch, Pope dedicate statue at St. Peter’s

Vatican, Jan. 19 (CWNews.com) – Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX, the head
of the Armenian Catholic Church, was in Rome on January 19 for the
installation of a statute of St. Gregory the Illuminator–the
“Apostle of Armenia”–outside St. Peter’s Basilica.

Pope John Paul blessed the statue prior to his weekly public
audience. During that audience the Pontiff called attention to the
presence of the Armenian Catholic patriarch and several other
Armenian bishops who had accompanied him.