HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN II DEPARTS FOR WORLD SUMMIT OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS

Panorama.am
11:42 03/07/06

On the morning of July 3, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch
and Catholicos of All Armenians, departed for Moscow to participate in
the World Summit of Religious Leaders. From July 3 to 5, more than 100
leaders of religions and denominations will gather in the capital of
Russia for the first world summit to discuss urgent problems of modern
times. The summit precedes the G8 summit of industrial leaders in
St. Petersburg.

The delegation, led by the Catholicos of All Armenians, consists of
His Eminence Archbishop Voskan Kalpakian, Primate of the Armenian
Diocese of Greece; His Eminence Arcbishop Pargev Martirosian, Primate
of the Diocese of Artsakh; His Eminence Archbishop Yeznik Petrosian,
Director of the Department of Inter-Church Relations for the Mother
See of Holy Etchmiadzin; and Mr. Rafael Papayan, lay member of the
Supreme Spiritual Council.

Also accompanying the Pontiff of All Armenians to Russia is His Grace
Bishop Vicken Aykazian, who will be participating in the Summit as
the President of the National Council of Churches (USA).