Armenian Apostolic Church has historically been cementing material  for ethnos - Metropolitan of Russian Orthodox Church

ArmInfo. Against the background of the "Tavush for the Motherland" movement in Armenia led by Primate  of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, attacks on the AAC have become more frequent.

In particular, Arsen Torosyan, MP from the ruling Civil Contract  party, considers the 1700-year history of the Armenian Christian  Church a myth that needs to be "destroyed to the ground." "Our people  have suffered a very difficult fate. In addition to the fact that  they have to destroy more than 100-year-old myths and stereotypes in  order to swim in this stormy sea, in fact they still have to finally  and completely destroy a 1,700-year-old myth, although they succeeded  to do part of it by establishing statehood," Torosyan wrote.

Let us recall that Armenia was the first country in the world to  adopt Christianity as a state religion more than 1,700 years ago - in  301 A.D. 

This "initiative" of the Armenian MP was commented on by the former  temporary administrator of the Yerevan Armenian Diocese of the  Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Leonid. In his telegram  channel, the clergyman noted that throughout its existence the Church  has gone through the most difficult stages. "There were periods of  renaissance, there were periods of spiritual stagnation. Regarding  the Armenian Apostolic Church - it historically was the cementing  material for the ethnos. I will assume that there is no more divided  people (Christian) in the world. We went through these words about  myths, the uselessness of the Church, reformatting. Recently. A  little over a hundred years ago. And I understand perfectly well what  is in the minds of these people who are trying to remove cement from  the building, replacing it with 'American chewing gum'. I wish the  Armenian people courage, wisdom and honor. The Church is not the  enemy of the people," the Metropolitan emphasized.