ArmInfo.It has been a week since Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has publicly raised the question of whether Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II adhered to the vow of celibacy.
I cannot believe that the Catholicos of All Armenians can act as a suppressor of the truth, I cannot believe that anything other than the truth can come from the lips of the Catholicos of All Armenians.
Let Garegin II himself clarify: did he break the vow of celibacy and does he have a child? We, his flock, have the right to hear the truth from him>, Pashinyan wrote today on his official Facebook page.
with the celibacy of the clergy began after Pashinyan's statement on May 29 at a cabinet meeting that all Armenian churches have been turned into closets and require the introduction of appropriate standards, since . The capital responded to him by pointing out his lack of a education (Pashinyan and his wife are conducting a campaign called - ed.), as well as .
Early the next morning, the Prime Minister posted a foul-mouthed insult to the top hierarchs of the Armenian Apostolic Church on his official Facebook page, along the lines of:
. After a while, he made another post: . Then another: . The Prime Minister's wife Anna Hakobyan, in turn, called the clergy .
At the end of the day, Pashinyan said that the authorities of the Republic of Armenia should have a in the matter of electing the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, and candidates for the post of Catholicos should undergo a background check.
And for several days now Pashinyan has been demanding an explanation as to whether Garegin II broke his vow of celibacy and whether he has a child, . , believes the head of government, who, it would seem, should have been concerned about the shots fired by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in the direction of Syunik, the uncertainty surrounding the peace treaty and Baku's ever new demands.