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    EDITURA TRADIȚIE
    SC."TRADIȚIE, FAMILIE, PROPRIETATE", S.R.L.
    ROMÂNIA, 031552 BUCUREȘTI, SECT. 3,
    Str. VORONEȚ Nr.7, bl. D 5, sc.A, ap.14
    ISSN 1224 - 0702

    Weekly bulletin
    Year XII, No 558, 13 June 2004

    RELIGIOUS LIFE

    6. YOUNG ARMENIAN PRIEST AT THE ARMENIAN CATHEDRAL IN BUCHAREST

    Since April last, in the Cathedral *the Saint Apostles* in Bucharest
    Father Khoren (Artavazd) Zakarian, from Armenia, serves the holy
    service. For the faithful attending this holy place, the largest one
    dedicated to Orthodox Armenians in Romania, the service officiated by
    Father Khoren together with the parochian Fr. Bogdan Ezras, represents
    one more reason to enjoy and enhance their faith.

    Born in February 1977 in Gyumri (Armenia), after the devastating
    earthquake of 1988, he moved with his family in Ecimiadzin, where he
    graduated the gymnasium and in 1994 he studied at the Theological
    Seminary *Vasken I*, near the lake of Sevan. After five years
    he finished his religious education at the Theological Seminary
    Kevorkian, with the Holy See of Ecimiadzin. He graduated magna cum
    laude the semi-nary with the essay entitled *Armenian Martyrs of the
    5th century*. With the blessing of the Catholicos Patriarch of all
    Armenians, His Sanctity Karekin II, he joined the Canto Department of
    the State Conservatory of Erevan, where he is a student in the fourth
    year. On February 27th, 2003 he was consecrated as monk priest under
    the name of Khoren by the Primate Martirossian Bartkev of the Diocese
    of Arțagh. At the recommendation of the Catholicos Patriarch, he
    became a member of the evaluation committee of theological seminaries
    of the Armenian Church and is also a lecturer at the Liturgical Music
    Department of the Theological seminary Vasken I. Before coming to
    Bucharest he served as priest at the Church Surp Gaiane in Ecimiadzin,
    informs the newspaper of the Armenian Union of Romania, Ararat, no. 9
    (294)/ May 1-15th, 2004.
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