ETCHMIADZIN, APRIL 17, NOYAN TAPAN. Priest ordaining and anointment was held at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin on April 15. Karekin II Catholicos of All Armenians presided the holy ceremony. During the liturgy twelve deacons got priest's ordaining from Archbishop Hovnan Terterian, the primate of the U.S. Western Diocese. The ordaining Holy Father renamed newly-converted priests with new spiritual names. Noyan Tapan was informed about it by the Information Sevices of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. On the same day, during the divine service, ceremony of becoming headgears also took place. Two clergymen, as monastic priests, got a headgear and completed rows of the congregation of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. After finishing the fourty-day period of lent at the Mother See, the clergymen will be called to pastoral service at dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic Church and different structures of the Mother See.

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