Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX stayed in Ukraine from October 29 to November 9. His visit was linked to the 1700th anniversary of Armenian Christianity, as well as to the 100th anniversary of the death of the Armenian Archbishop of Lviv, Isaak Isakovych. On Tuesday October 30 His Beatitude Patriarch Nerses stayed in Kyiv, where he met the Papal Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop
Nikola Eterovic and the Ambassador of Armenia in Ukraine, Grach Silvanian. In the evening of that day the Patriarch flew to Lviv. On October 31 Patriarch Nerses met the Director of Lviv Oblast State Administration Department for Religious Affairs Stepan Borutsky and then visited Truskavets, where the distinguished guest was welcomed by archbishops of the Kyiv-Galician Diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), who, headed by Archbishop Liubomyr Cardinal Liubomyr Husar, gathered at the UGCC Sambir Drohobych Diocese Administration for a regular Synod session. At the end of the day the UGCC head played host to the Armenian Patriarch in his metropolitan palace on St. George’s Mountain. Throughout his stay in Ukraine, Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX visited the Armenian communities scattered across throughout our state. In particular, he visited Khmelnytsky, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Chernivtsi, Sniatyn, Kuty, Ivano- Frankivsk, Berezhany, and other historical settlements of Armenians in Ukraine, the UGCC head’s press secretariat reports.
P. S. The Armenian Gregorian Church is one of the churches which is in union with Rome. Although part of the Roman Cathedra in administrative terms, they still preserve their eastern rites. There are about twenty churches of this kind today, with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church being the largest among them.
