Pope Francis to visit Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople
16:48, 29 November, 2014
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS. It is expected that within the
framework of his visit to Istanbul, Pope Francis will visit Archbishop
Mesrob Mutafian, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, who is in the
St. Savior Armenian hospital. As reports `Armenpress’, the Turkish
Demokrathaber.net stated about this.
In July 2008, it was announced that Mesrob Mutafyan was suffering from
Alzheimer’s disease and has since withdrawn from all his duties and
from public life; however he still officially remains patriarch and
archbishop.
Archbishop Aram AteÅ?yan, who is from Diyarbakır, is running the
day-to-day affairs of the Patriarchate after being
appointed as Patriarchal Vicar of Constantinople with 25 of the 26
members of the Religious Council voting for him.
An official communiqué confirmed on January 14, 2011 that the
Patriarch was suffering from Frontal temporal degenerative dementia,
and that his physical and mental situation had deteriorated very
rapidly.
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