The Armenian National Committee – Western Region (ANC-WR) has announced that it will bestow the Khrimian Hayrig Award to His Eminence Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate of the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America, at the 2011 ANCA-WR Annual Banquet for his decades of service as the spiritual leader of Armenian American communities in the Western United States.

The Khrimian Hayrig Award bears special significance that emphasizes the recipient’s leadership, while also underscoring their efforts as advocates of truth, justice and human rights. It is named after Catholicos Mkrtich Khrimian, who was called “Hayrig” because of his fatherly love and dedication to the betterment of the Armenian people, especially the peasantry in Western Armenia.