Under the presidency of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, the body of Archbishop Grigoris was placed in the St. Gayane Monastery where he received the last anointment.
"We mourn the loss of our beloved Archbishop. As a priest and as a Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Ukraine, he still had much to do. He had undertaken the implementation of several programs in Ukraine, initiated the construction of the church in Kiev and enthusiastically put his life into these programs. He offered all his efforts for the Armenian Diocese of Ukraine to prosper and shine. He was constant, even in the hardest of times in the country, encouraging his faithful people through difficult situations”, the Armenian Pontiff noted.
Present for the funeral were Primates from various Dioceses of the Armenian Church within Armenia, members of the Brotherhood of Holy Etchmiadzin, provincial and municipal authorities of the Diocese of Shirak and Armavir, representatives of the Ukrainian Embassy of Armenia, public figures, community representatives of the Armenian Diocese of Ukraine.