DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND - Broadcasting The Badarak

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DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

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Issue 10, Volume 5

6 March, 2014

The Primate's Office is happy to announce that for the first time in the UK the Premier

Christian Radio will broadcast the Sourp Badarak / Divine Liturgy that they recorded on the

Feast of Holy Theophany at St Sarkis a few weeks ago. The programme will last just under

an hour, and it will include parts of the Liturgy itself as well as many helpful explanations

by the Very Revd Fr Garegin Hambardzumyan.

We Armenians pride ourselves for being the first nation-state to accept Christianity in 301

AD & we often affirm that the Armenian Orthodox Church is one of the oldest churches

within Christendom. Both are quite true but it is largely unknown to scores of other

Christian brothers & sisters - especially those Evangelical Christians in this country - who

are not too familiar at all with the Armenian or pan-Orthodox Churches.

This is why our own Dr Harry Hagopian had agreed this pilot project with Premier Christian

Radio three months ago. It will reach out to non-Armenians and hopefully show the leaven

of the faith that lies behind traditional incense. If successful, similar programmes with other

Orthodox Churches might be recorded too.

So why not follow the programme as it goes out:

London 1305, 1332, 1413 MW

National DAB

Freeview 725

www.premier.org.uk

Primate’s Office, Armenian Church of the UK and Ireland, 25 Cheniston Gardens, London W8 6TG, 0208 127 8364, E-Mail