Talk:Bagrat Galstanyan

In 2013, Reverend Bagrat tried to pawn the St. Gregory the Illuminator Church in Canada for money.

Armenian Mirror-Spectator, a weekly newspaper published in Canada, in its issue of July 20, 2013, presented shameful details of the activities of the leader of the diocese of Canada at that time, Reverend Bagrat.

In particular, it is presented in the issue that Galstanyan first involved the Diocese of Canada in some strange financial and economic activity, as a result of which debts of hundreds of thousands of dollars were created, and then he tried to PLEDGE the Saint Gregory the Illuminator Church in Quebec for the money.

https://civic.am/politics/international/146737--2013-.html

https://tert.nla.am/archive/NLA%20TERT/Mirror-Spectator/200713.pdf

https://old.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/1coypbc/2013_armenian_diocese_in_canada_in_disarray/ Midgetman433 (talk) 19:26, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

I literally did not see anything about loan or anything about such things in the article seems like you’re playing with the story 37.252.93.206 (talk) 01:34, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

this scandal should be noted in the article. There should be a Controversies section.

New newspaper article about the same accusation published in Der Standard.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000224001/der-erzbischof-der-armeniens-regierung-stuerzen-moechte

Canada: Scorched Earth Born in Armenia's second largest city, Gyumri, to Iranian Armenians, Galstanyan studied theology at an early age. A rapid career in Armenia's national church followed, not least thanks to the favor of Karekin II, the head of the Armenian Church. Karekin II made him his assistant, in 1997 he took part in the second Conference of European Churches in Graz and was eventually elected head of the Armenian Church in Canada.

But Galstanjan's time in Montreal, Canada, was overshadowed by scandals. In 2013, for example, he allegedly tried to mortgage a cathedral in order to refill the church's coffers as part of a financial scandal. Galstanjan then lost his bid to be re-elected as church leader in Canada. An Internet smear campaign against the election management, which he had orchestrated, followed, and the Canadian diocese responded with a long and angry statement in which he was called a "bully." "You can either share Galstanjan's opinion or he will classify you as an enemy," the text says. Galstanjan was sent back to Armenia, where he was given the less prestigious position of archbishop of the border region of Tavush.

now people can't use the excuse they used to remove it the last time, that the previous reference was an older article. This is a fresh publication from "a newspaper of record"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Standard?useskin=vector

sourcing

this biography will have only sourced content. please source properly before re-adding biographical content.

thanks in advance, Augmented Seventh (talk) 16:16, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Misleading information

The article states that "the Armenian government unilaterally agreed to cede four villages in the Tavush Province to Azerbaijan under the border delimitation process between the two countries". However these villages (Bağanis Ayrum, Aşağı Əskipara, Xeyrimli, and Qızılhacılı) were not part of the Tavush province. Those villages are part of Qazakh district of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenia in 1990s. The article in Le Monde cited as a reference clearly says so:

Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has agreed to hand over to his neighbor four areas surrounding border villages in the Tavouch region. These were seized by Yerevan's forces after the first war in Nagorno-Karabakh (1988-1994), forcing their Azerbaijani inhabitants to flee.

So do other reliable sources: [1] [2] [3] Grandmaster 10:34, 11 June 2024 (UTC)