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H H CATHOLICOS ARAM I MEETS WITH PRESIDENT SARKSSIAN & WITH H H KAREKIN II















His Holiness Aram I departed to Yerevan on a special plane on the early morning of April 21. The Catholicos met with the Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Karekin II, in Saint Etchmiyadzine. The two Catholicoi then visited newly elected President Serge Sarkssian, whom they met for over an hour.

Catholicos Aram I was accompanied by Yervant Pamboukian from the Central National Committee, Committee chairman of the Diocese of Aleppo Daron Avedissian, benefactors Harout and Souren Vartanian brothers. In Yerevan, the Pontiff’s delegation was joined by Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian (Primate of the Diocese of Tehran), Bishop Papken Tcharian (Primate of the Diocese of Isfahan), Bishop Anoushavan Tanielian (Pontifical Vicar to the Eastern Prelacy of the United States), who are currently in Etchmiyadzine for meetings.

After their meeting with the President, the two Catholicoi visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial of Dzidzernagapert and placed a wrath in the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide on the eve of the Martyrs’ day, 24th of April. The Pontiffs also presided over a Requiem service in the memory of the victims. Later they visited the Genocide museum adjacent to the memorial. President Serge Sarkssian hosted a luncheon in honour of the two Catholicoi. Attending the luncheon were former president Robert Kocharian, Palriament Speaker Tigran Torossian and Prime Minister Tigran Sarkssian. His Holiness returned to Antelias in the afternoon.

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