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Armenia greets Pope Francis with lavash and apricots


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Yerevan /Mediamax/. The plane carrying Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church landed in Zvartnots Airport at 15:00 local time today in Yerevan.

The Pope was welcomed by President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the First Lady, as well as His Holiness Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, and political and religious figures of Armenia.

 

Pope Francis was greeted with Armenian lavash and apricots once he came off the plane.

 

The Pope was accompanied by Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, who has paid multiple visits to Armenia.

 

83 journalists arrived in Yerevan on the same plane as the Pope.

 

The welcome ceremony for Pope Francis will take place later at Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.

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