YEREVAN. – Pope Francis will perhaps visit Armenia next year, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri told Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent during his visit to the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan.
Pope has a busy schedule for the next year, Cardinal said, but expressed hope that His Holiness would find time for a visit to Armenia.
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri arrived in Armenia on September 23, on a five-day visit. On September 24, he, together with the Catholicos Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics, Krikor Bedros XX Gabroyan, presided over the consecration of the Holy Martyrs’ Church of Gyumri city. The President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, also was on hand at this event.
Also, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Roman Curia represented Pope Francis at Sunday’s Blessing of the Holy Chrism (Muron, in Armenian), at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, and which is performed once in every seven years.
In addition, Cardinal Sandri handed to President Sargsyan the Gold Medal that was awarded to him by Pope Francis.
Photo by Arsen Sargsyan/NEWS.am
