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    Pope Francis to visit Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople

    16:48, 29 November, 2014


    YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS. It is expected that within the
    framework of his visit to Istanbul, Pope Francis will visit Archbishop
    Mesrob Mutafian, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, who is in the
    St. Savior Armenian hospital. As reports `Armenpress', the Turkish
    Demokrathaber.net stated about this.

    In July 2008, it was announced that Mesrob Mutafyan was suffering from
    Alzheimer's disease and has since withdrawn from all his duties and
    from public life; however he still officially remains patriarch and
    archbishop.

    Archbishop Aram AteÅ?yan, who is from Diyarbakır, is running the
    day-to-day affairs of the Patriarchate after being
    appointed as Patriarchal Vicar of Constantinople with 25 of the 26
    members of the Religious Council voting for him.

    An official communiqué confirmed on January 14, 2011 that the
    Patriarch was suffering from Frontal temporal degenerative dementia,
    and that his physical and mental situation had deteriorated very
    rapidly.

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/785933/pope-francis-to-visit-armenian-patriarch-of-constantinople.html

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