Defrocking of Asatryan and Takhmazyan ruled an internal Church matter: proceedings terminated

The courts have dismissed lawsuits over two more defrockings. Proceedings have been terminated in the cases of Stepan Asatryan and Aramais Takhmazyan, former priests of Surb Hovhannavank Church and the church in Talin, and the interim measures previously granted to secure their claims have been lifted.

Sima Abovyan and Hovhannes Melkonyan, judges of the Armavir Province Court of First Instance, ruled that a lawsuit challenging a canonical decision by Garegin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, cannot be heard in civil proceedings because it is an internal matter of the Church, the legal information portal datalex. am reported.