{"id":67684,"date":"2011-02-17T18:26:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T14:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=67684"},"modified":"2011-02-17T18:27:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T14:27:29","slug":"bulgarian-armenian-priest-accepted-echmiadzins-invitation-now-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/17\/bulgarian-armenian-priest-accepted-echmiadzins-invitation-now-in-armenia.html","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian-Armenian Priest Accepted Echmiadzin&#8217;s Invitation, Now in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Sarkis Hovhannisian, the pastor of the Armenian Apostolic Church serving the Armenian community in the Bulgarian city of Varna, who was assaulted at a night club last summer, has accepted the invitation by the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin and is now in Armenia, Etchmiadzin press spokesperson Vahram Melikyan told Epress.am today.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the meeting date has not yet been set.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, on Jul. 31, 2010, Fr. Sarkis was attacked in the well-known nightclub Arrogance at the Golden Sands resort in Varna. On his way to the washroom, a few people attacked him with blows to the head, which resulted in an injury in Fr. Sarkis\u2019 right eye. He was admitted at a local hospital for emergency surgery; for a long time, there was the threat of permanent blindness in that eye.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Sarkis apparently had told a police officer he had gone to the night club with his friend visiting from Russia, where they had simply \u201cdrank two [glasses of] 50 [grams] of whiskey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rumors floating among the Armenian-Bulgarian community also note that the pastor is involved in the drug trade.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Epress.am earlier, Fr. Vahram had said the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin had invited Fr. Sarkis for a \u201ctalk\u201d; however, the latter had not presented himself since he was healing from injuries he sustained from the assault.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, members of Bulgaria&#8217;s Armenian community had said the pastor was &#8220;in excellent health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are rumors floating around among the community that Fr. Sarkis is living with his girlfriend following his divorce, and the Bulgarian-Armenian community doesn\u2019t want the pastor to preach to them.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Sarkis Hovhannisian, the pastor of the Armenian Apostolic Church serving the Armenian community in the Bulgarian city of Varna, who&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19679,21497,21496,21463,22057,21464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}