42 years after being destroyed, St. Grigor Lusavorich (St. Gregory the Illuminator) Armenian church of Stavropol has been reconstructed. The consecration ceremony took place on November 22 under the leadership of AAC South Russian eparchy primate Movses Movsisyan. Construction work was funded by Zhirik Mkhoyan and Ashot Arustamyan, Blagovest-info reports.

The South Russian Eparchy of Armenian Apostolic Church (center: Krasnodar) was founded in 1997 by the encyclical of Catholicos Karekin I.