On June 17, 2016, a group of pilgrims from the St. Marianeh Church in Ashtarak, the Republic of Armenia, led by Rev. Father Mkrtich Yeranyan and Acolyte Khachik Vardanyan, arrived in Tbilisi.

At the initiative of the Department of Youth Affairs of the Armenian Diocese in Georgia (Director - Valery Badalyan) and the Hayartun Centre (Director - Levon Chidilyan), on June 16, 2016, sports and intellectual games were held at the gym of Tbilisi № 98 Public School (Head Master – Giorgi Momtsmlidze).

On June 16, 2016, the Diocesan one-day Armenian school students, their parents and teachers were gathered together in the Saint Etchmiadzin Church in Tbilisi.

Following the Evening Service, Eugenia Markosyan, Director of the Educational department of the Diocese, welcomed and congratulated the 2015-2016 academic year 35 graduates of “St. Gregory of Narek” Saturday and “St. Yeghia the Prophet” Sunday schools, who by demonstrating sufficient knowledge of the Armenian language and Armenian Literature, as well as the History of Armenia, and successfully passing their final exams, received certificates of basic Armenian knowledge.

On June 16, 2016, in the St. Andrew the First-called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of Georgia a forum was held on “Religions and the Issue of Early Marriage in Georgia”. Besides clergymen of Georgian Orthodox Church, the representatives of Georgia’s different religious communities, Georgian MPs, Deputy Ministers, representatives of the Office of Public Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia, the UNFPA Georgia office, and different NGOs were participating in the Forum.