We hereby announce to our faithful that on Sunday, April 15, 2018, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I will elevate four members of the Holy See of Cilicia Brotherhood to the rank of Bishop. The ordination will take place at St. Gregory the Illuminator Mother Cathedral in Antelias. The following clergymen will receive the rank of Bishop; Very Rev. Fr. Masis Zobouyan (Prelate of Kuwait and Neighboring Countries), Very Rev. Fr. Sipan Ketchejian (Catholicosal Vicar of Isfahan, Iran), Very Rev. Fr. Mesrob Sarkissian (Catholicosal Vicar of UAE and Qatar), and Very Rev. Fr. Torkom Donoyan (Vicar General of the Western U.S.).
Fr. Torkom traveled to Lebanon last weekend to prepare for the ceremony. H.E. Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate, and members of the Executive Council and community, departed for Lebanon earlier this week to participate in the ceremony.