ARGENTINEAN ARMENIAN WELCOMES THE ELECTION OF NEW POPE

15:05 14.03.2013

Argentina’s Armenian community has welcomed the election of Cardinal
Jorge Mario Bergoglio as new Pope.

As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergoglio attended the community’s
events, particularly those held in commemoration of Armenian Genocide
victims.

He has always been Armenian community’s friend despite the difference
between Catholic and Apostolic traditions. Both church hierarchies
served a liturgy in memory of Genocide victims during the visit of His
Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.

Seven years ago the archbishop publicly demanded that Turkey admit
the Ottoman-era Genocide of Armenians.

The Vatican used the term genocide to describe the massacres of
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in an official communique in 2000,
under Pope John Paul II.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress