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.