CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS TO LEAVE FOR FRANCE AND INDIA
Noyan Tapan
Feb 19 2007
ETCHMIADZIN, FEBRUARY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. His Holiness Karekin II Supreme
Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians will leave for Paris on
February 17 where he will take part in the official opening ceremony
of the year of Armenia in France and the first diocesan deputies’
meeting. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the Information Services
of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness will leave on a
Pastor visit for India on February 22. During the ten-day visit His
Holiness will be in the cities of Delhi, Calcutta, Madras and Bombay,
will visit the RA Embassy, have meetings with representatives of
the Armenian community. His Holiness will meet with the heads and
students of the Calcutta Philanthropical Academy. The Catholicos of
All Armenians will also visit Armenian sanctuaries, including one of
the most ancient Christian churches of the East, the Surb Hovhannu
Karapet Armenian Church of Chinsurah. Official meetings are also
envisaged during the visit. Archbishop Aghan Paliozian, the Australia
and New Zealand Armenian Diocese Primate, Friar Vardan Navasardian,
the Mother See monk, Priest Ktrich Devejian and Friar Hovnan Hakobian
will accompany His Holiness during the visit to India.