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Etchmiadzin Vows Legal Action to Regain ‘Seized’ Hovanavank Monastery

Summary by Asbarez.com
YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—The Armenian Apostolic Church pledged on Thursday to use “all legal means” to regain control a medieval monastery occupied by a defrocked priest and other supporters of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Helped by police and pro-government vigilantes, the former priest, Stepan Asatryan, has refused to leave the Hovanavank monastery 30 kilometers northwest of Yerevan since being defrocked two weeks ago for backing Pashinyan’s …
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Asbarez.com broke the news in on Thursday, October 30, 2025.
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