The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin has issued a statement addressing the criminal proceedings and prosecution initiated against the clerical members of the Supreme Spiritual Council.

A ban on leaving the country has been selected as a preventive measure against Bishop Vahan Hovhannisyan, Director of Clerical and Youth Training Programs; Archbishop Haigazoun Najarian, member of the Mother See brotherhood; Bishop Mushegh Babayan, Director of the Administrative and Economic Department of the Mother See; Archbishop Nathan Hovhannisyan, Director of the External Relations and Protocol Department of the Mother See; and Bishop Hovnan Hakobyan, Primate of the Diocese of Gougark