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Saturday, November 22, 2025

𖡡 Macaluso’s, 55 Fourth Avenue Hawthorne, New Jersey

The Seminary Board of Directors cordially invites you to celebrate the variety of gifts of St. Nersess Armenian Seminary Alumni and its next group of 12 clergy and lay ministers.

We will publish a commemorative booklet for this special evening. Please consider contributing to this booklet in honor of one or more of our twelve distinguished honorees.

Deadline Extended to NOVEMBER 14 – Names will be printed in an addendum

Or PRINT Banquet Booklet Donation Form

See Banquet Booklet Donation Letter

St. Nersess Armenian Seminary is blessed with a vibrant network of alumni — clergy and lay ministers — who faithfully serve the Armenian Church with love and humility in North America and abroad.

To recognize their devoted service, the seminary will host a gala banquet on Saturday, November 22, 2025, celebrating the vocations of three bishops, seven priests, deacon/music director, and a lay minister, all of whom received their education at St. Nersess.

This event marks the third in a special series of tributes highlighting alumni who serve the Armenian Church in diverse roles. The first “12 Vocations” celebration was held in November 2021, with a second following in 2023. This year, the theme continues with “12 Vocations: Variety of Gifts – One Spirit,” inspired by 1 Corinthians 12:4-6: “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.”

The gala will take place at Macaluso’s in Hawthorne, New Jersey, beginning with a cocktail hour at 6:00 p.m., followed by dinner and a celebratory program filled with reflections, tributes, and special recognitions. His Grace Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan, Primate of the Eastern Diocese and President of the St. Nersess Board of Directors, will preside.

The evening will also feature a special presentation by Dottie Bengoian, a beloved educator, motivational speaker, and humorist. Her talk, “God’s Gift: Humor and Hope,” will blend Armenian humor with inspirational storytelling in English.

For more information, please contact event co-chair Lynn Beylerian at lynnbeylerian@gmail.com or (201) 914-0354.