The Prelacy of Greece announced with sadness the passing of Archpriest Fr. Geghart Baboghlian, who served for many years as the pastor of the St. Garabed Church of Neos Kosmos in Greece. Der Geghart also served the Prelacy in the United States from 1966 to 1969. He was 85 years old.
        Funeral services and Extreme Unction took place on May 22, at St. Garabed Church. Interment followed at the Nea Zmirni Cemetery.
       Der Geghart was the brother of the late Vartges Baboghlian, the well-known choir director who served in the United States and who was the host of the Prelacy’s popular weekly “Armenian Radio Hour” during the 1980s and 1990s.
       Asdvatz Hokin Lousavoreh . May God Illuminate his soul.