“Those same statements made about me and the Church are also slander. The church serves God, the nation and the Motherland and acts in defense of the interests of our people and our Motherland”, during the meeting with the editors. time said Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II: responding to the accusations made by the CP authorities that his brother, Ezras Srbazan, He is an agent of KGB.
His Holiness reminded that the statementthat Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan, leader of the diocese of Russia and New Nakhichevan of the Armenian Apostolic Church, is an agent of the KGB, was denied by Archbishop Ezras himself.
“Our Church does not provide any service for the interests of any country. Therefore, those statements aim to create a wrong idea about the Church among the people. But I am sure that the people do not believe such slanderous accusations,” said Garegin the Second.
Responding to rumors that the Council of Artsakh residents had appealed to him to depose the head of Artsakh Diocese, why has he not responded until now, His Holiness answered that such a written application was not sent to the Mother See, it was published in the press.
By the way, His Holiness refrained from calling the clerics participating in the anti-church campaign “tyrants”. He said that they are not in a hurry to depose them, they approach the actions of discounting the name of the Catholicos during the liturgy, they expect that they will present explanations for their actions.
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