Archbishops of Dublin denounce the 1915 Genocide

Archbishops of Dublin denounce the 1915 Genocide  –

An ecumenical service of prayer and remembrance in Taney Parish Church, Dublin, was organised by the Armenian Church of Dublin, Ireland. An impressive number of participants, Armenians and non-Armenians, heard the Archbishop of the Church of Ireland in Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, who described the killing as a “genocide” which demanded “recognition and response”.

 Among the dignitaries who spoke was the Catholic auxiliary bishop of Dublin Raymond Field, representing Abp. Diarmuid Marti. The Bishop said Turkish authorities had always falsified what happened as inevitable consequences of the war”. However, added the Bishop, Pope Francis loudly proclaimed that what happened was a genocide at a recent mass in. Canon Patrick Thomas of the Church of Wales the author of the recent book Remembering the Armenian Genocide 1915 was present at the event as well as the President of the Jewish Representative Council Leonard Abrahamson, the Rev Ken Lindsay past-president of the Methodist Churches in Ireland and Hayk Khemchyan consul with the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia.