Armenian Patriarch of St. James Jerusalem, His Holiness Torkom Manoogian will not attend the liturgy in Holy Cross Church in Akhtamar island on September 19, 2010.

“Patriarch is already 80 years old and he can’t depart for Van. Moreover, participation of representatives of the Armenian Apostolic Church in a ceremony in a non-consecrated church and without a cross on the dome is inadmissible,” Jerusalem Hay Dat office director Georgetta Avakian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

Thus, three Supreme Patriarchs of the Armenian Apostolic Church – Catholicos of Armenians His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia His Holiness Aram I and Patriarch of St. James Jerusalem Torkom Manoogian have boycotted the religious ceremony in Turkey.