Armenian Church in Myanmar re-anointed

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 17, ARMENPRESS. The issue of the ancient Christian holy site of Myanmar – St. John the Baptist Armenian Church in Rangoon is in the centre of the attention of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. At the course of his visit to Myanmar on October 1-5, His Holiness Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, tried to find out the solution out of the current situation with the local authorities, when a defrocked self-constituted pastor of the Anglican Church took control over the Armenian church.

Father Paruyr Avetisyan, the Director of the Office for the Mother See Chancellery Inter-Church Relations, stated this at the course of the press conference held in the press centre of “Armenpress” News Agency. Among other things, Father Avetisyan noted that Fr. Zaven Yazichian will visit the church each Sunday or once in two weeks and celebrate holy liturgy in the church.