On October 27, in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; extended His Pontifical Blessings to His Grace Bishop Datev Hakobyan, Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Romania and Locum Tenes of the Armenian Diocese of Bulgaria, Rev. Fr. Aristakes Hovhannisyan (Yekaterinburg); Rev. Fr. Sebeos Ghalachyan (Nizhny Novgorod); Rev. Fr. Ashot Ghazaryan (Rostov-on-Don); spiritual servants in the Armenian Diocese of Russia and New Nakhichevan, who arrived in Armenia to leave for Artsakh.
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin