Pashinyan Risks Miscalculation: the Prime Minister "Deposed" the Patriarch: EADaily

Pashinyan risks miscalculation: the prime minister "deposed" the patriarch: EADaily

EADaily, June 10th, 2025. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today, June 10, in his Telegram channel noted the need to take active measures to "liberate" the Patriarchate of the Mother See of Etchmiadzin and organize new elections of the Catholicos of All Armenians. To implement the plan…

Pashinyan Proposes ‘Coordinating Council’ to Oversee Catholicos Elections, Widening His Crusade Against the Church

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday continued his almost two-week-long smear campaign against the Armenian Church and its supreme leader, Catholicos Karekin II, by proposing the creation of a “coordinating Council” to oversee the election of a new pontiff—a step that is beyond the realm of his constitutional responsibilities. He posted the proposal on Facebook as part of an ongoing thread of unverified accusations and insults, which the Su…

Armenian PM pushes to unseat influential church head

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday urged followers of the influential Armenian Apostolic Church to help unseat its spiritual leader, Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II. Relations between Pashinyan and the church leadership have sharply deteriorated in recent years. Garegin II repeatedly called for Pashinyan’s resignation following Armenia’s disastrous military defeats to arch-foe Azerbaijan over the then-disputed Karabakh reg…