On December 26, 2016, the Calouste Gulbenkian Hall of the Hayartun Center at the Armenian Diocese in Georgia hosted an annual general meeting of the Diocesan Headquarters’ employees, departments and the Hayartun Cultural Educational and Youth Center.

On December 26, 2016, in the Cathedral of Saint George in Tbilisi, the Feast day of Saint Stephen, Deacon and First Martyr of the Church was commemorated with celebration of Divine Liturgy. The Liturgy was celebrated by the Primate of the Armenian Diocese in Georgia, His Grace Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan.

On December 24, 2016, the Hayartun Center at the Armenian Diocese in Georgia hosted a semi-annual reporting concert of the center’s creative groups. The concert program featured those musical numbers, which the groups had mastered over the past few months, and demonstrated their achievements.

On December 25, 2016, St. Gregory the Illuminator Kindergarten celebrated New Year and Christmas at the Alexander Mantashev Educational Cultural Youth Center in Batumi (Armenian Diocese in Georgia). The hall’s Christmas decorations, as well as the Annunciation scene, the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Magi, casted the attendees’ minds back on time when Jesus was born, according to the Gospel. Before the event’s start, Director of the Alexander Mantashev Center, Sona Hovhannisyan, gave opening remarks and congratulated the people present on the upcoming New Year and Christmas.