Western Diocese

By the invitation of His Grace Bishop Joseph of Los Angeles and the West Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, the Very Rev. Fr. Dajad Dz. V. Yardemian, Vicar General of the Western Diocese, representing His Eminence Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, Primate of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church, attended to the IOCC Dinner at St. Nicholas Antiochian Cathedral on Sunday, November 18, 2007 in honor of His Eminence Metropolitan Nikitas.

His Eminence Metropolitan Nikitas was appointed Director of the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute of Berkeley, California. His Eminence Metropolitan Nikitas is fluent in English, Greek and Russian and has a working knowledge of Latin, Slavonic and Spanish.