For a month we have been telling the Catholicos of All Armenians that the issue of Saint Arshak must be resolved, and that a sacrilege has occurred. We didn’t even say let him be excommunicated from the church, we said that if possible, suspend his ministry for a while, say for 5-6 months, release him, repent, repent, return to the church. About this in an interview with Novosti Армении-NEWS.am This was stated by the primate of the Kotayk diocese, Archbishop Arakel Karamyan, who also met with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan yesterday and signed the bishops’ statement.

He added that the Catholicos said that it might not be true, but then all the facts showed that it was reality.

“After that, the Catholicos created a commission and told you to look into this issue. The examination came, and when they took him away, the Catholicos said: the result of this study means nothing to me, I cannot dismiss Arshak, Arshak’s dismissal means the destruction of the Armenian church. If the Church is destroyed with one blow, then let it be destroyed.

If he thinks that, then he’s defending sacrilege. This is exactly what many bishops did not like. That’s what we want,”we don’t want anything else,” he said.

When asked if there was a question of the resignation of the Catholicos in your demands, he replied: “If he solves this issue himself, there is no such problem. If he doesn’t decide, I can’t say anymore.

No clergyman has anything against the Armenian Church, the Armenian clergyman sees that sin is growing like a snowball. We want this snowball to melt, and to melt means to realize your sin, repent and repent.

There is no movement against the church. We are only saying to remove this person for a while, there is not even a question of divorce.””

Regarding their meeting with the Prime Minister yesterday, His Holiness Arakel declined to provide any details, noting that answers to these questions can only be obtained from the Prime Minister’s office.

For a month we have been telling the Catholicos of All Armenians that the issue of Saint Arshak must be resolved, and that a sacrilege has occurred. We didn’t even say let him be excommunicated from the church, we said that if possible, suspend his ministry for a while, say for 5-6 months, release him, repent, repent, return to the church. About this in an interview with Novosti Армении-NEWS.am This was stated by the primate of the Kotayk diocese, Archbishop Arakel Karamyan, who also met with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan yesterday and signed the bishops’ statement.

He added that the Catholicos said that it might not be true, but then all the facts showed that it was reality.

“After that, the Catholicos created a commission and told you to look into this issue. The examination came, and when they took him away, the Catholicos said: the result of this study means nothing to me, I cannot dismiss Arshak, Arshak’s dismissal means the destruction of the Armenian church. If the Church is destroyed with one blow, then let it be destroyed.

If he thinks that, then he’s defending sacrilege. This is exactly what many bishops did not like. That’s what we want,”we don’t want anything else,” he said.

When asked if there was a question of the resignation of the Catholicos in your demands, he replied: “If he solves this issue himself, there is no such problem. If he doesn’t decide, I can’t say anymore.

No clergyman has anything against the Armenian Church, the Armenian clergyman sees that sin is growing like a snowball. We want this snowball to melt, and to melt means to realize your sin, repent and repent.

There is no movement against the church. We are only saying to remove this person for a while, there is not even a question of divorce.””

Regarding their meeting with the Prime Minister yesterday, His Holiness Arakel declined to provide any details, noting that answers to these questions can only be obtained from the Prime Minister’s office.