NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE FROM ETCHMIADZIN TO OSHAKAN TO TAKE PLACE IN JULY 2008

Noyan Tapan
Apr 17 2007

ETCHMIADZIN, APRIL 17, NOYAN TAPAN. A meeting on the issue of formation
of the All-Armenian Youth Church Organization of the Armenian Apostolic
Church was held on April 16 in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. The
meeting chaired by the primate of the US Western Diocese of the
Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Hovnan Terterian was attended
by young people from the Armenian, Georgian and Artsakh dioceses.

According to a press release submitted to NT by the press service
of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the dates of the First Deputy
Assembly and the National Pilgrimage were clarified at the meeting. The
deputy assembly will be convened on July 11-12, 2008, in the Mother
See of Holy Etchmiadzin, while the pilgrimage from Etchmiadzin to
Oshakan will take place on July 12-13 of the same year.

About three hundred young people will participate in the deputy
assembly, over two thousand will go on a pilgrimage.