Armenia`s premier to attend liturgy at Church of St. Gevorg in  Metsamor community this Sunday 

ArmInfo. On Sunday, December 14, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will attend the holy and immortal liturgy at the Church of St. Gevorg in the village of Aygeshat in the  Metsamor community of the Armavir region.

Pashinyan announced this during a Facebook live broadcast.

As Pashinyan previously stated, these liturgies are part of the  program "for the liberation of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and  the renewal of the Armenian Apostolic Church." The first such liturgy  was held in Hovhannavank, celebrated by defrocked monk Stepan  Asatryan. Pashinyan then attended liturgies at the Church of the Holy  Mother of God in Talin, Aragatsotn Province, the Church of the Holy  Mother of God in the village of Khachik, Vayots Dzor, and the Church  of Saint Hakob in the village of Ararat, Ararat Province. On November  12, speaking to reporters, the prime minister stated that he would  only pray at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin after he "felt  sufficiently purified." Pashinyan's final liturgy, on December 7, was  held at the Church of the Seven Wounds (Surb Yot Verk) in Gyumri. Let  us recall that since May 29, when Pashinyan compared Armenian  churches to closets at a government meeting, and his wife, Anna  Hakobyan, called clergy the country's main pedophiles, the head of  the Armenian cabinet has been declaring that Catholicos of All  Armenians Garegin II has broken his vow of celibacy, and therefore,  in his opinion, should resign. He promises to provide evidence if the  latter decide to challenge his accusations in court.

During this period, he announced his decision to create a special  coordination group to remove the Catholicos, and he participates in  liturgies conducted either by defrocked clergy or by those who  supported his call for the defrocking of Garegin II. He recently  announced a "roadmap for the renewal of the Armenian Apostolic Church  after the departure of Ktrich Nesrisyan" (the secular name of Garegin  II).