ArmInfo. Following the election of the synod of bishops of Armenian Catholic Church, Archbishop Raphael Francois Minassian was elected the XXI Catholicos-Patriarch of the House of Cilician of the Armenian Catholic Church.
According to the message of the Holy See, the newly elected Catholicos-Patriarch received the name of His Beatitude Raphael Bedros XXI Minassian.
Archbishop Rafael Minasyan was the head of the Armenian Catholic Church in Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. He is the chairman of the "Armenian Caritas" charitable public organization.
Bells will sound in Armenian Catholic churches on September 23 at 3:00pm as a sign of the election of the XXI Catholicos-Patriarch, "Armenpress" reports.