MEMORIAL EVENING FOR LATE ARCHBISHOP NERSES BOZABALIAN HELD AT WESTERN DIOCESE
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Aug 07 2009
On August 7, 2009 an event commemorating the legacy of His Eminence
Archbishop Nerses Bozablian will be held in Nazareth and Sima
Kalaydjian Hall of Arshag and Eleanor Dickranian Diocesan Complex
in Burbank, California. His Eminence Archbishop Hovnan Derderian,
Primate, will preside over the event. On the morning of June 27, His
Eminence Archbishop Nerses Bozabalian entered his eternal rest. He
was one of the senior members of the Brotherhood of Holy Etchmiadzin
and a devoted servant of the Armenian Holy Apostolic Church. He was 72.
Archbishop Nerses was seriously injured as a result of a robbery attack
committed by an acquaintance on February 18, 2009. The attack occurred
in his home on the grounds of the Mother See. He was hospitalized
in a coma at the Nairi Medical Center. The Archbishop had remained
under the compassionate care of the Medical Center until the time
of his death. The death of the Archbishop was a great loss for the
Armenian Church and her faithful.