DELEGATION WILL NOT LEAVE FOR VAN
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[05:43 pm] 27 March, 2007
"The delegation of Mother See of St.Echmiadzin will not participate
in the opening ceremony of Surb Khach church in Akhtamar," informs
Reverend Vahram Melikyan, director of information board. Van governor
Mehmet Niyazi Tanilir sent an invitation by the name of Armenian
Catholicos Garegin II to Mother See of St. Echmiadzin through the RA
Foreign Affairs.
Taking into account the fact that the restored church is going to
turn into a museum and will not serve its core mission under the
Armenian Holy Patriarchate, and the opening ceremony will be held
not according to the Armenian religious ritual, the Mother See is
firm not to be present in the ceremony.
