| The general membership meeting, after hearing the reports of the Board of Trustees and the Building Committee, along with all the sister organizations, voted to adjunct with the Holy See of Cilicia. By a special decree (Gontag) from His Holiness Zareh I, St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church officially came under the spiritual and administrative authority of the Catholicosate of the Holy See of Cilicia. |
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| Meanwhile, the Building Committee continued his work. On September 20, 1959, Archbishop Khoren Paroyan, Prelate of Lebanon, on a special envoy from his Holiness, Catholicos Zareh I, while visiting other parishes in America, visited San Francisco and presided over a banquet where $60,000 was raised for the building fund of our church. |
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| Father Vahrich Shirinian was then assigned to the Holy Martyrs' Encino Parich. In 1963, Father Nareg Shirikian was invited to take his place by the ordinance of the Prelacy, Central Executive Committee, and the Board of Trustees to server the St. Gregory Church parish. Father Shirikian gracefully accepted the invitation of the Board of Trustees and moved to San Francisco with his family to assume the duties of pastor of our church. |
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