ARCHBISHOP ATESHYAN: ARMENIAN COMMUNITY UNANIMOUS ABOUT NEW CONSTANTINOPLE PATRIARCH ELECTION

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.03.2010 20:21 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian community is unanimous about the
election of new Patriarch of Constantinople, according to His
Eminence Archbishop Aram Ateshyan, the Patriarchal Locum Tenens of
Constantinople.

"The matter is that some wish a co-ruler to be elected and some wish
to elect a new Patriarch," His Eminence Ateshyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter.

At that, he did not specify any date for the election. "The Jewish
community of Istanbul had been waiting for the permission of the
Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a year. We made our appeal
just three months ago," he said.

His Eminence Ateshyan also commented on the meeting between the
representatives of religious minorities in Turkey with Deputy Prime
Minister Cemil Cicek. "We expressed our concerns about a number of
issues. The government pledged to resolve them as well as initiate
a process of return of our property," he said.