June 19, 2021

THE CALLING TO THE PRIESTHOOD CEREMONY OF 5 GRADUATING SEMINARIANS

On Saturday evening, June 19th, 2021, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I presided over the calling to the priesthood ceremony of 5 graduating Seminarians, performed by the Prelate of the UAE and Qatar His Grace Bishop Mesrob Sarkissian, and sponsored by the Dean of the Seminary V. Rev. Fr. Barouyr Shernezian.

 

During the ceremony, the five deacons ­– Jean Selloumian, Garabed Eordekian, Kevork Tenekejian, Henry Malkhassian, and Apraham Degirmenjian – were led by the sponsoring priest from the entrance of the church to the altar. Here, they confessed their faith by anathematizing all heretics and doctrines that deviate from the true faith of the church, and reaffirmed to abide by the Orthodox and true teachings of the universal and the Armenian Orthodox Church Fathers, and recited the Creed and read the Charter of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.

 

 

 

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