ANNUAL SESSION OF DEPUTY COUNCIL OF TEHRAN ARMENIAN DIOCESE FINISHES

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 18 2007

TEHRAN, MAY 18, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Works of the annual
session of the Deputy Council of the Tehran Armenian Diocese were
held on May 10-16.

The Deputy Council discussed the two-year references presented by
the Religious and Diocesan Councils and Accounting-Examination Body
of the diocese and gave its estimation to the done works.

According to the Alik daily, the Deputy Council touched upon the
national-church problems the community life is interested in,
especially, issues of teaching the Armenian language and religion,
emigration and Diaspora-Armenia, diocese-Armenia relations.

The session formed as a result of the elections a newly-formed
Religious, Diocesan Councils and Accounting-Examination Council.

Archbishop Sepuh Sargsian, the primate of the Tehran diocese made
the final speech. He appreciated the work done by the deputies and
emphasized the main directions of the executive body of the diocese
in the educational, charity, cultural and economic spheres during
the coming two years.

Archbishop Sepuh Sargsian touched upon the emigration. The emigration
is a tragedy, and its organizers are great criminals," he said, "our
community has taken roots on the holly Iranian land with history of
thousands of years and I believe that our community will continue
its life here for a long, very long time. We are a happy colony as
we live in direct neighborhood with our historic Fatherland and the
most important thing is that good relations of the past, present
and surely, future of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Armenia are
a great power and also possibility for strengthening and lasting of
the Iranian Armenian community," Archbishop Sepuh Sargsian said.