“This is to symbolize that we, the Russian Orthodox Church and the oldest Armenian Apostolic Church, are on very warm and close terms,” archbishop Feofan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz said, “We all move towards Christ.”
Catholicos Karekin II and archbishop Feofan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz studied together at the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy in the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery, reports Novosti-Armenia.