GEORGIAN CHURCH TO OPEN REPRESENTATION IN ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net - Today Head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II received RA National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian and members of the Armenian delegation, IA Regnum reported. Upon completion of the meeting His Holiness told journalists that the conversation was "very warm" and the parties touched upon various issues including the problems referring to a number of churches. "It is a dubious question. Armenians say that those are Armenian churches, Georgians say that those are Georgian ones. That is why we offered to form joint commissions to thoroughly consider the issues", the Catholicos-Patriarch said. In his turn the Armenian Parliament Speaker noted that he has raised the question of providing a legal status for the Armenian Apostolic Church in Georgia. At that he expressed satisfaction with the intention on Georgian Church to open representation in Armenia.