Two Armenian opera singers, tenor Yeghishe Manucharyan and mezzo-soprano Victoria Avetisyan, gave a concert at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center. The event was sponsored by St. John Armenian Church, as part of its observation of Armenian Culture Month…
Oscar Tatosian is a familiar name to Midwest Armenians. He was on the Eastern Diocese’s Diocesan Council for many years and continues to sit on the boards of the Fund for Armenian Relief and the Armenian Assembly of America. He is also Honorary …
An enormous procession of pilgrims converged on the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin last week, to celebrate a uniquely Armenian feast day dedicated to the Holy Cross of Varak…
In the wake of a horrific fire that swept through a crowded Coptic Church in Egypt this week, Diocesan Primate Fr. Mesrop Parsamyan extended …
Twenty-five years ago, the older members of St. John the Baptist Armenian Church in suburban Milwaukee worried that the parish’s annual summer festival would soon die for lack of young volunteers to do the work. That generation has passed, but younger generations have filled the role of their elders, making the 2022 Milwaukee Armenian Fest the most successful in its long history.
His Holiness Catholicos Aram I blessed the Holy Muron before a crowd of thousands of faithful outside St. Gregory the Illuminator’s Cathedral at the Holy See in Antelias, Lebanon. A tradition that is repeated every seven years, this is the 13th time that the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia holds the ceremony at its current seat in exile, following the 1915 Genocide.
In a joyous, dignified service at New York’s St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral, Diocesan Primate Fr. Mesrop Parsamyan reflected on the Apostolic character of the Armenian Church as a call “to go forth” among its people, and into the world.
A week before many events throughout the U.S. were being cancelled from fear of the coronavirus, the Armenian Church Eastern Diocese’s annual Midwest Saintly Women’s Day was held as scheduled on March 14. This year’s host congregation, St. John the Baptist, Greenfield, drew attendees from neighboring Armenian communities and the participation of several Midwest area clergy
A biblical land, Armenia is cited in the Old Testament by the name “Kingdom of Urartu” (Ararat). In the foothills of its mountains, Noah would have cultivated vines and become inebriated drinking the wine he produced. Thanks to the Armenian translation of an apocryphal gospel, we know the names of the three Magi: Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar. Although according to tradition the apostles Bartholomew and Jude Thaddaeus were the evangelisers of Armenia, it is likely that it was instead the work of missionaries from Syria and Cappadocia. In any case, it was so successful that in 301, thanks to the apostolate of St. Gregory the Illuminator, Armenia became the first nation that embraced Christianity and proclaimed it a state religion, even before the Edict of Milan of 313,
The Mazmanian Family took its audience on a musical world tour with Armenia as the home base. At their Oct. 26 concert in Milwaukee, the quartet journeyed across Eastern Europe, to Spain via Cuba, to Ireland and the U.S., but their repertoire’s heart and soul was rooted in the Armenian homeland.
