ETCHMIADZIN, JUNE 27, NOYAN TAPAN. Monk T. Trdat Martirosian, a friar of Holy Etchmiadzin, died after a long serious illness on June 25. According to the message received from the Information Service of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, monk Trdat Martirosian (Hovhannes, the font name) was born in Etchmiadzin on December 23, 1973. After being consecrated as a monastic clergyman, he served in the Gevorgiants theological seminary as a supervisor. Then he was appointed pastor in Plodvid, the Armenian diocese in Bulgaria. The Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II and the whole congregation of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin are deeply grieving over the untimely death of the young devout and devoted monk.

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