Pan Armenian News

GEORGIAN CHURCH TO OPEN REPRESENTATION IN ARMENIA

29.04.2005 08:10

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Head of the Georgian Orthodox Church,
Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II received RA National Assembly
Speaker Artur Baghdasarian and members of the Armenian delegation, IA Regnum
reported. Upon completion of the meeting His Holiness told journalists that
the conversation was `very warm’ and the parties touched upon various issues
including the problems referring to a number of churches. `It is a dubious
question. Armenians say that those are Armenian churches, Georgians say that
those are Georgian ones. That is why we offered to form joint commissions to
thoroughly consider the issues’, the Catholicos-Patriarch said. In his turn
the Armenian Parliament Speaker noted that he has raised the question of
providing a legal status for the Armenian Apostolic Church in Georgia. At
that he expressed satisfaction with the intention on Georgian Church to open
representation in Armenia.