Attacked in February, Archbishop Nerses Pozapalyan dies in hospital

PanARMENIAN.Net - Today Archbishop Nerses Pozapalyan died at his 72nd year of life.



On 18th February of 2009, Archbishop Nerses Pozapalyan was attacked in his cell for the purpose of robbery, resulting in severe injuries. After the unconscious priest was hospitalized to a medical center Nairi, where doctors diagnosed a stroke. Until his last days Archbishop Pozapalyan was in the hospital.



As the information center of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin reports, on 29 June at 5.00 p.m the body of the Archbishop will be moved to the St.Gayane Church where requiem will be held from 7:00 p.m. for the priest. Funeral will be held on Tuesday, 30 June at 11.00 a.m. at the Srbots Nahatakyats church (in the region of Kotayk), which was built by the cleric. Then in the courtyard of the Surb Patarag Church the body of Nerses Pozapalyan will be commited to the earth.