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ARMENIAN CATHOLICOS DEFROCKS FR. ABEL MANOUKIAN
news.am
June 2 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. - Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II defrocked Fr. Abel
Manoukian.
>From now on the priest will bear his secular name Hrach Manoukian,
press service of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin informed Armenian
News-NEWS.am.
Earlier in May Catholicos of All Armenians suspended priesthood of
Abel Manoukian.
The decision came after his refusal to recognize the approved canonic
diocese in Switzerland, priest of the Geneva's St. Hagop church, as
well as neglect of the order by Karekin II to come to Holy Etchmiadzin.
news.am
June 2 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. - Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II defrocked Fr. Abel
Manoukian.
>From now on the priest will bear his secular name Hrach Manoukian,
press service of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin informed Armenian
News-NEWS.am.
Earlier in May Catholicos of All Armenians suspended priesthood of
Abel Manoukian.
The decision came after his refusal to recognize the approved canonic
diocese in Switzerland, priest of the Geneva's St. Hagop church, as
well as neglect of the order by Karekin II to come to Holy Etchmiadzin.