Relations between Pashinyan and the church leadership have sharply deteriorated in recent years.
The loss of Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s lightning offensive in 2023 has divided Armenia, as its neighbour demands sweeping concessions in exchange for lasting peace.
Now Pashinyan has launched an unprecedented challenge to Garegin II, urging believers on social media to form a “coordination group” to organise the “liberation” of the church and elect a new Catholicos.
Pashinyan and his wife in late May alleged that the Catholicos has a child which prompted fierce opposition criticism and calls for the couple’s excommunication.
Armenia -- the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion in the 4th century -- grants the Armenian Apostolic Church special constitutional status and the church wields considerable influence in Armenian society.
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