After 20 Years of Service, I Am Stepping Down as Director of the Information System: Vahram Archbishop Melikyan
Vahram Archbishop Melikyan made a post on Facebook stating:
“Dear colleagues, friends, and brethren in service,
After nearly 20 years of service, I am stepping down as the Director and spokesperson of the Information System of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, effective today. I will continue my service to Holy Etchmiadzin in a different capacity.
I express my heartfelt gratitude to His Holiness the Catholicos of All Armenians for his trust in me over these years, and for his patience and perseverance throughout our work.
I extend my feelings of gratitude to all the media executives, editors, and journalists with whom I have traveled this long path, striving to make the mission of the Armenian Church, our contemporary service, challenges, and sorrows more accessible and understandable to our society, and to promote the Christian message.
We have not always shared the same views on certain issues; however, this has not hindered our ability to maintain open and honest relationships, cooperate in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect, and find ways to harmonize worldly and spiritual matters.
I am willing to continue to be helpful in matters concerning the coverage of spiritual life.
This service has also granted me many friends from various fields, with whom my spiritual bond and friendship are now unbreakable and continuously enriched with beautiful new chapters of my life.
I thank our diocesan leaders, my fellow brethren in Christ, and the staff of the Mother See and dioceses for their effective collaboration and readiness to contribute to the bright mission of our Church's Information System.
Finally, I warmly thank all current and former brothers and sisters who have been instrumental in making all achievements possible in this realm over the years, thanks to their dedication, enthusiasm, and readiness for collective work.
I wish the new director of the Information System, my spiritual brother, the Honorable Fr. Isaiah Arthenian, a successful service.”