MTh. Rev. Michael Westh

Election of Catholicos Armenia 1999 - Between the First and the Second Day Yerevan Yerevan 27. October 1999 19.00 (+0500 Armenian Daylight Time) Right about now, the National Ecclesiastical Council consisting of the 49 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs along with 400 priests and lay delegates appointed in the patriarchies and dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic Church worldwide elects the new catholicos. Yesterday it became clear that this election is between archbishop Karekin Nersessian, for many years bishop in the Ararat Diocese, the largest Armenian diocese with almost 1 mil....

Yerevan 25. October 1999 20.30 (+0500 Armenian Daylight Time) Soon it will be decided who is to be elected the absolute head of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Two questions have been important in the previous debate, be it in the media or be it among ordinary people and believers, namely the claimed intervention of the government in the election process and the claimed lack of unity among the clerics in the top leadership of the Church....