Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sharply criticized the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church of Garegin II. The prime minister wrote about this on his Facebook page.
According to Pashinyan, Catholicos violated the vow of celibacy and has a child. The politician noted that according to the canons of the Armenian Apostolic Church, a person who violated the vow of celibacy has no right to be a Catholicos.
The head of government called on Garegin II to leave Patriarchate.
In the morning, on June 27, employees of the Armenian National Security Service arrived at the Catholicos residence in Echmiadzin to detain the archbishop, but they met the rebuff from believers and priests.
On June 25, the Investigative Committee of Armenia announced the preparation of terrorist attacks in order to seize power in Armenia by members of the opposition “sacred struggle”. In the houses of the leader of the movement of Archbishop Bagrat Bagrat Bagrata and his supporters, large -scale searches were held. In the evening of the same day, the court arrested them.