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    ORDINATION OF DEACONS AND PRIESTS
    Divan of the Armenian Patriarchate

    AZG Armenian Daily #135
    19/07/2007

    Armenian Church

    By the arrangement of His Beatitude Archbishop Torkom Manoogian,
    Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, students of the Third Grade of the
    theological Faculty of the Seminary, stall-bearers Samuel Safaryan,
    Nareg Megerdchyan, Ararat Zargaryan, Pavel Garabedyan and Sahag
    Hovagimyan, were ordained subdeacon on Friday, July 13, 2007, at the
    Chapel of Holy Etchmiadzin of St. James Cathedral, following vespers,
    and next day, on July 14, they were ordained deacon by the Grand
    Sacristan His Eminence Archbishop Nourhan Manoogian.

    Their Presenter was His Eminence Archbishop Aris Shirvanian.

    The same afternoon following vespers, the ceremony of the Call to
    the Priesthood of two graduated of the Theological Faculty of the
    Seminary Deacon Avedik Alekyan and Deacon Pavel Tavtyan, as well as
    of Deacon Arthur Paloyan, took place at St. James Cathedral.

    Presiding over the ceremony was the Grand Sacristan.

    Next day, on Sunday, July 15, on the Feast of Transfiguration
    (Vartavar), the three ordinands were ordained celibate priests by His
    Eminence during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. Deacon Avedik
    Alekyan was consecrated and renamed Father Vazken, Deacon Pavel Tavtyan
    was consecrated and renamed Father Yeghishe, and Deacon Arthur Paloyan
    was consecrated and renamed Father Shnork. Their Presenter was His
    Eminence Archbishop Aris Shirvanian.

    The same afternoon following vespers at St. James Cathedral, the
    newly ordained priests received their cowls, symbol of celibacy.

    The new priests will spend their forty-day period of preparation of
    their new mission at the Armenian Convent in Bethlehem.
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