Sevan Gharibian, The Grand Sacristan of the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, leads a procession during Orthodox Palm Sunday, marking the start of Holy Week that ends on Easter Sunday in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City April 17, 2022. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

Sevan Gharibian, The Grand Sacristan of the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, touches the Stone of Anointing at Easter Sunday Mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City April 17, 2022. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

Father Sarkis Petoyan from Saint Gregory The Illuminator Armenian Apostolic Church and members of the Armenian diaspora in the U.S. gather in remembrance of the 1915 genocide, which was acknowledged by U.S. President Joe Biden, at the Armenian Martyrs Monument in Montebello, California, U.S. April 24, 2021. REUTERS/David Swanson 

Father Sarkis Petoyan from Saint Gregory The Illuminator Armenian Apostolic Church and members of the Armenian diaspora in the U.S. gather in remembrance of the 1915 genocide, which was acknowledged by U.S. President Joe Biden, at the Armenian Martyrs Monument in Montebello, California, U.S. April 24, 2021. REUTERS/David Swanson 

Clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church take part in the Christmas mass at the Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Yerevan, Armenia January 6, 2021. Grigor Yepremyan/PAN Photo via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. 

An Azeri army officer talks with Russian peacekeepers near the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, in the Kalbajar district, Azerbaijan, December 21, 2020. Picture taken December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov 

A Russian peacekeeper stands guard near the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, in the Kalbajar district, Azerbaijan, December 21, 2020. Picture taken December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov 

A Russian peacekeeper stands guard near the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, in the Kalbajar district, Azerbaijan, December 21, 2020. Picture taken December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov 

A dog is seen next to a burnt gas station near the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located in a territory which is soon to be turned over to Azerbaijan under a peace deal that followed the fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in the Kalbajar district November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer 

The monastery's abbot Father Hovhannes walks past a military vehicle of the Russian peacekeeping forces at the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located in a territory which is soon to be turned over to Azerbaijan under a peace deal that followed the fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in the Kalbajar district November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer 

A service member of the Russian peacekeeping troops stands next to a military vehicle at the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located in a territory which is soon to be turned over to Azerbaijan under a peace deal that followed the fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in the Kalbajar district November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer 

A view shows the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located in a territory which is soon to be turned over to Azerbaijan under a peace deal that followed the fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in the Kalbajar district November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer 

People light candles at the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located in a territory which is soon to be turned over to Azerbaijan under a peace deal that followed the fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in the Kalbajar district November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer 

A service member of the Russian peacekeeping troops stands next to a military vehicle at the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located in a territory which is soon to be turned over to Azerbaijan under a peace deal that followed the fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in the Kalbajar district November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer 

Russian peacekeepers are seen at the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located in a territory which is soon to be turned over to Azerbaijan under a peace deal that followed the fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in the Kalbajar district November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer 

People walk past by Kumbet mosque, which was a former Armenian Apostolic church and known as Church of the Twelve Apostles, in the eastern city of Kars, Turkey, February 1, 2020. REUTERS/Murad Sezer 

Archbishop Kissag Mouradian, the Primate of the Apostolic Armenian Church of the Republic of Argentina and Chile, speaks next to a banner that reads "Erdogan, negationist' during a protest against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attending the upcoming G20 Summit, in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 26, 2018. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

People light and place candles during a liturgy marking the anniversary of mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, at the St Sarkis Armenian apostolic church in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, April 24, 2016. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin 

Women lay flowers at a memorial near the St Sarkis Armenian apostolic church during a liturgy marking the anniversary of mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, April 24, 2016. The sign on the memorial reads, "April 24, 1915". REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin 

A woman lays flowers at a memorial near the St Sarkis Armenian apostolic church during a liturgy marking the anniversary of mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, April 24, 2016. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin 

Bishop Meghrig Parikian greets Syrian refugees at a welcome service at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Syrian refugees hold Canadian flags as they take part in a welcome service at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch 

Syrian refugee Levon Kourken (L), 4 , and Serli Agop (C), 7, take part in a welcome service at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch 

Syrian refugee Levon Kourken (C), 4, and Serli Agop (R), 7, take part in a welcome service at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Syrian refugees Kevork Jamgochian holds his daughter Madlin at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church during a welcome serivice at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch 

Syrian refugees pray during a welcoming service for Syrian refugees at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto, in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Syrian refugees pray during a welcoming service for Syrian refugees at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto, in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Syrian refugees sit during a welcoming service for Syrian refugees at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto, in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Syrian refugee Andre Babik, 5, sits during a welcoming service for Syrian refugees at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto, in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Syrian refugees sit during a welcoming service for Syrian refugees at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto, in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Syrian refugee Levon Kourken, 4, stands on an aisle during a welcoming service for Syrian refugees at St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Archbishop Kissag Mouradian, the Primate of the Apostolic Armenian Church of the Republic of Argentina and Chile, conducts a mass marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Saint Gregrory the Iluminator cathedral in Buenos Aires, April 24, 2015. Armenia says the massacres during World War One constitute genocide -- a term also used by Pope Francis, the European parliament and some two dozen nations. Muslim Turkey accepts many Christian Armenians were killed in partisan fighting during the war, but denies it amounted to genocide. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian

Archbishop Kissag Mouradian (C), the Primate of the Apostolic Armenian Church of the Republic of Argentina and Chile, and members of the Armenian clergy take part in a mass marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, at the Saint Gregrory the Iluminator cathedral in Buenos Aires, April 24, 2015. Armenia says the massacres during World War One constitute genocide -- a term also used by Pope Francis, the European parliament and some two dozen nations. Muslim Turkey accepts many Christian Armenians were killed in partisan fighting during the war, but denies it amounted to genocide. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

Honor guards take part in a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

Diradur Sradaryan, priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church (R) and Archbishop Philoxenos Mattias Nayis of the Syrian Orthodox Church (2nd L) commemorate the centenary of the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turk forces, during a regular session of the German lower house of Parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany April 24, 2015. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II (C) leads a canonisation ceremony for the victims of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the open-air altar of Armenia's main cathedral, Echmiadzin, in Vagharshapat, April 23, 2015. The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago. REUTERS/Hrant Khachatryan/PAN Photo

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German President Joachim Gauck (2nd R) greets Metropolitian Augoustinos of the Greek Metropolitanate of Central Europe (L) German Cardinal Reinhard Marx (L) Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm (3rd L) and Diradur Sradaryan, priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church (R) after making a speech during an Ecumenical service marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, at the cathedral in Berlin April 23, 2015. Gauck on Thursday condemned the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a century ago as "genocide", a term that the Berlin government had long rejected. He used the word in a speech to mark the 100th anniversary of what most Western scholars and two dozen governments regard as a genocide against an Armenian population that flourished in what is now modern Turkey. Turkey vehemently denies the charge. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Metropolitian Augoustinos of the Greek Metropolitanate of Central Europe, Archbishop Karekin Bekdjian of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Diradur Sradaryan, priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Bishop Rosemarie Wenner of the Evangelical-Methodist Church and Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm (L-R) give a blessing during an Ecumenical service marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, at the cathedral in Berlin April 23, 2015. German President Joachim Gauck on Thursday condemned the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a century ago as "genocide", a term that the Berlin government had long rejected. Gauck used the word in a speech to mark the 100th anniversary of what most Western scholars and two dozen governments regard as a genocide against an Armenian population that flourished in what is now modern Turkey. Turkey vehemently denies the charge. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Metropolitian Augoustinos of the Greek Metropolitanate of Central Europe, Archbishop Karekin Bekdjian of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Diradur Sradaryan, priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Bishop Rosemarie Wenner of the Evangelical-Methodist Church and Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm (L-R) give a blessing during an Ecumenical service marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, at the cathedral in Berlin April 23, 2015. German President Joachim Gauck on Thursday condemned the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a century ago as "genocide", a term that the Berlin government had long rejected. Gauck used the word in a speech to mark the 100th anniversary of what most Western scholars and two dozen governments regard as a genocide against an Armenian population that flourished in what is now modern Turkey. Turkey vehemently denies the charge. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Archbishop Karekin Bekdjian (C) of the Armenian Apostolic Church makes a reading during an Ecumenical service marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, at the cathedral in Berlin April 23, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch 

Archbishop Karekin Bekdjian (C) of the Armenian Apostolic Church gives a blessing during an Ecumenical service marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, at the cathedral in Berlin April 23, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch 

Diradur Sradaryan (R) priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church gives a speech during an Ecumenical service marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, at the cathedral in Berlin April 23, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch 

Pope Francis (L) embraces Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II during a mass on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian mass killings, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 12, 2015. Pope Francis on Sunday commemorated the 100th anniversary of the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians as "the first genocide of the 20th century," words that could draw an angry reaction from Turkey. REUTERS/Tony Gentile TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, claps during the unveiling of a plaque marking the Armenian Apostolic Church of St. John the Baptist as a heritage building in Yangon, October 1, 2014. The building, constructed in 1862, is the oldest Armenian church in Yangon. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (MYANMAR - Tags: RELIGION) 

Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians greets government official as he visits the Armenian Apostolic Church of St. John the Baptist, the oldest Armenian church in Yangon on October 1, 2014. The church was built in 1862. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (MYANMAR - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS) 

Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians visits the Armenian Apostolic Church of St. John the Baptist, the oldest Armenian church in Yangon on October 1, 2014. The church was built in 1862. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (MYANMAR - Tags: RELIGION) 

A priest stands in the Armenian Church before the funeral of Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Archbishop Torkom Manoogian in Jerusalem's Old City October 22, 2012. Manoogian was elected patriarch of Jerusalem in 1990. He died at the age of 93 on October 12. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION) 

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan (R) walk with Apostolic Church Catholicos Karekin II outside the Etchmiadzine Cathedral in Yerevan October 6, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Feferberg/Pool (ARMENIA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION) 

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan visit the Etchmiadzine Cathedral after a meeting with Apostolic Church Catholicos Karekin II in Yerevan October 6, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Feferberg/Pool (ARMENIA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION) 

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan (L) attend a meeting with Apostolic Church Catholicos Karekin II at the Etchmiadzine Cathedral in Yerevan October 6, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Feferberg/Pool (ARMENIA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION)