A tense situation is unfolding at Ovannavank Church, where clergy members have arrived, but the defrocked priest Ter Aram is refusing to leave the church.

Police officers are also present. A local villager insists that this is their village church and that the priest should be the defrocked Stepan Asatryan.

The conflict arose when a couple, unaware that Ter Aram had been defrocked, came to the church to be married. In the end, the couple refused the services of the defrocked priest.

Stepan Asatryan told the clergy that he does not recognize his defrocking.