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LEADER OF ARMENIAN CHURCH TO VISIT BOCA RATON OCT. 15
by By Dale M. King
Boca Raton News, USA
Oct 11 2007
The leader of the world's seven million Armenian Apostolic Christians
will visit Boca Raton Oct. 15.
His Holiness, Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch & Catholicos of
all Armenians, will be at St. David Armenian Apostolic Church, 2300
Yamato Road. He is scheduled to meet with the youth of the church
at a special "Pizza Party with the Pontiff." It will be held at 5
p.m. in the Marie and Alex Manoogian Sunday and Armenian School.
At 7 p.m., an interfaith service is planned in the church, including
bishops and archbishops traveling with His Holiness from Armenia.
Also participating will be local clergy, community and civic leaders
from the area. A reception will follow in Mardigian Hall.
On this, his first tour of the Eastern Diocese, His Holiness will
meet with generations of Armenian Christians regarding their faith,
traditions and heritage, and experience first hand the life of the
Armenian community in the United States. He will also confer with
ecumenical and interfaith leaders and civic and government officials.
His Holiness presides over the governing college of bishops at
Etchmiadzin, near the capital of Yerevan, Armenia. The title,
"Catholicos," is synonymous with the title of Pope.
The charitable missions he has launched, such as Habitat for Armenia,
have helped his people in the struggle to recover from the physical
ruins of the 1988 earthquake and the spiritual debris of Armenia's
Soviet period.
His Holiness and his entourage will travel to St. Mary Armenian
Apostolic Church in Hollywood for a special service Oct. 16 at
11:30 a.m.
A third church, St. Hagop Armenian Church in St. Petersburg, will
also be consecrated by His Holiness during his visit.
http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src =news&refno=21273&category=Local%20News
by By Dale M. King
Boca Raton News, USA
Oct 11 2007
The leader of the world's seven million Armenian Apostolic Christians
will visit Boca Raton Oct. 15.
His Holiness, Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch & Catholicos of
all Armenians, will be at St. David Armenian Apostolic Church, 2300
Yamato Road. He is scheduled to meet with the youth of the church
at a special "Pizza Party with the Pontiff." It will be held at 5
p.m. in the Marie and Alex Manoogian Sunday and Armenian School.
At 7 p.m., an interfaith service is planned in the church, including
bishops and archbishops traveling with His Holiness from Armenia.
Also participating will be local clergy, community and civic leaders
from the area. A reception will follow in Mardigian Hall.
On this, his first tour of the Eastern Diocese, His Holiness will
meet with generations of Armenian Christians regarding their faith,
traditions and heritage, and experience first hand the life of the
Armenian community in the United States. He will also confer with
ecumenical and interfaith leaders and civic and government officials.
His Holiness presides over the governing college of bishops at
Etchmiadzin, near the capital of Yerevan, Armenia. The title,
"Catholicos," is synonymous with the title of Pope.
The charitable missions he has launched, such as Habitat for Armenia,
have helped his people in the struggle to recover from the physical
ruins of the 1988 earthquake and the spiritual debris of Armenia's
Soviet period.
His Holiness and his entourage will travel to St. Mary Armenian
Apostolic Church in Hollywood for a special service Oct. 16 at
11:30 a.m.
A third church, St. Hagop Armenian Church in St. Petersburg, will
also be consecrated by His Holiness during his visit.
http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src =news&refno=21273&category=Local%20News