"The Armenian people is happy to have this kind of pastor", - once said Mother Teresa about the 130th All Armenian Catholicos Vazgen 1st.
Holy Echmiadzin hosted an inauguration ceremony of a monument to the Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen I, on November 11. The initiative belongs to co-chair of the Armenia-Russia inter-parliamentary cooperation committee, Nikolai Ryzhkov, who visited Yerevan to take part in the ceremony. The sculptor is Friedrich Soghoyan.