PRESS RELEASE
ARMENIAN PATRIARCHATE
JERUSALEM
Office of the Ecumenical and Foreign Relations
Contact person: Bishop Aris Shirvanian
Tel: 972-2-628-2331
Fax: 972-2-626-4861
E-mail: [email protected]
COMMUNIQUÉ
ORDINATIONS AT ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL
Last weekend were days of spiritual joy for St. James Brotherhood and the
Armenian Community of Jerusalem. On the occasion of the Feast of the Holy
Translators (by Julian Calendar) graduate students of the Armenian Seminary
and the Theological Faculty received the grace of ordination by the
Patriarch of our Holy See, His Beatitude Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, at
St. James Cathedral. The Presenter was the Grand Sacristan His Eminence
Archbishop Nourhan Manougian who along with Very Rev. Father Baret
Yeretzian, the Dean of the Seminary, and Rev. Fathers Theodoros Zakarian and
Pakrad Bourjekian led the ordinands to the ordaining Patriarch.
On Thursday, 21 October 2004, during the Evening Service, His Beatitude
bestowed stoles upon four seminarians of the Class IV, Nareg
Megerdichian, Bavel Garabedian, Sahag Hovagimian and Samuel Safarian. At the
same time he ordained subdeacons the stole-bearers of the Class I of the
Theological Faculty, Ardag Hagopian, Hovhannes Kevorkian, Bavel Tavtian, as
well as the stole-bearer of the St. Yeghia Church of Haifa, Avedis
Shahinian.
On Friday, 22 October, His Beatitude ordained the subdeacons Ardak
Hagopian, Hovhannes Kevorkian,, Pavel Tavtian and Avedis Shahinian as
deacons during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy.
In the afternoon, during the celebration of the Eve of the Feast of the Holy
Translators, the Service of the Call to Priesthood of Deacon Haroutiun
Yeghiayan, who graduated from the Theological Faculty, was conducted.
On Saturday, 23 October, on the Feast of the Holy Translators, His Beatitude
the Patriarch ordained Deacon Haroutiun Yeghiayan as celibate priest in a
moving ceremony during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy and re-named
him Father Haygazoun. Then in the same afternoon during the Evening Service
he donned the newly ordained priest the traditional hood(Veghar) , the
symbol of celibacy.
A formal dinner in honor of the newly ordained priest Father Haygazoun, the
deacons and the stole-bearers was served at the refectory of the Brotherhood
where His Beatitude and Members of the clergy made toasts and congratulated
them all.
Father Haygazoun will spend his traditional forty days of fasting period and
of preparation for his new spiritual career at our Convent of Nativity in
Bethlehem.
On this happy occasion we would like to announce that presently there are 43
students studying at our Seminary and the Theological Faculty, one of them
is a special student from the USA, another from Bulgaria and all the rest
are from Armenia. The Seminary consists of five classes and the Theological
Faculty of three classes.
The Dean announces that candidates who would like to study at our Seminary
and the Theological Faculty may submit their applications for the academic
year 2005-2006 during the current year. Applicants will be accepted from
Armenia and from different Armenian communities in the Diaspora. Applicants
should be 14 years of age and over. Special students may also be admitted.
For further information inquiries should be addressed to the Dean Very
Reverend Father Baret Yeretzian at the following address:
Armenian Seminary, P.O.Box 14001,
Old City Jerusalem 91141, Israel.
Tel: (972-2)628-2331.
Jerusalem, 25 October 2004 DIVAN OF THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCHATE
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