Armenia’s Armavir court ends former bishop Saroyan’s reinstatement case
The court also revoked an order requiring the Church to retain Saroyan as diocesan leader. Saroyan says he will appeal.
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The court also revoked an order requiring the Church to retain Saroyan as diocesan leader. Saroyan says he will appeal.
Armenia’s Armavir first-instance court has terminated former bishop Gevorg Saroyan’s case seeking reinstatement as head of the Armenian Apostolic Church’s Masisatsotn diocese, a Church district, Azatutyun reported on October 22. The court also revoked an interim order requiring the Church to retain him in that post until the proceedings ended.
Azatutyun reported that Catholicos Karekin II, the Church’s leader, had removed Saroyan for departing from Church rules and later defrocked him, stripping him of clerical status. Saroyan, whose secular name is Arman Saroyan, disputes whether those actions were valid under Church rules.
According to Azatutyun’s account of the ruling, the court found that appointing and dismissing diocesan leaders falls within the Catholicos’s exclusive authority and forms part of the Church’s internal self-government. The court said these matters are governed by internal Church rules binding on all Church officials.
Church lawyers had argued from the outset that the court had no authority to review the Catholicos’s decisions. The first-instance court ended Saroyan’s case after ten months.
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