It was 2019, and I was a seminarian. The first attack by a small group on the Armenian Church began. Several thugs seized the Patriarchate. Tovmas Arakelyan, a cleric of the Tavush Diocese, wrote about this.
“This traitor, who testified against his brothers, had not yet been ordained. In our presence, he approached the Catholicos, asking him to become his personal bodyguard. The Patriarch replied that he had no need for bodyguards. We were all stunned by this bout of flattery.
Today he declared that he had nothing to do with the detained clergy, and the priests had nothing to do with him. Who are you on your side, Pashazade? Shameless…,” he wrote.