NEW PASTORAL APPOINTMENTS

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[05:48 pm] 14 December, 2007

By Pontifical Order of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch
and Catholicos of All Armenians, new pastoral appointments were made
in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, as well as throughout Armenia
and the Diaspora.

Very Rev. Father Sahak Mashalian has been appointed Dean of the
Gevorkian Theological Seminary of Holy Etchmiadzin. Rev. Fr. Grigor
Khatchatrian has been appointed as Acting Locum Tenens for the
Diocese of Aragatsotn, concurrent with his position as Director of
the Armenian Church Youth Centers. Rev. Fr. Davit Karamian has been
appointed as Assistant Dean of the Gevorkian Theological Seminary of
Holy Etchmiadzin.

Additionally, the following priests have been appointed to continue
their pastoral service in the dioceses of the Armenian Church:

Rev. Fr. Norayr Simonian has been assigned to the Armenian Diocese
of Georgia, under the supervision of the Primate of the diocese.

Rev. Fr. Nshan Petrosian has been assigned to the Armenian Diocese
of Russia and New Nakhijevan, under the supervision of the Primate
of the diocese.