The Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno will host a visit and speech by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, at noon on Wednesday, May 9.

He will speak on “The Armenian Church in the 21st Century” in the Alice Peters Auditorium of the University Business Center. The speech is free and open to the public.

His Holiness, whose headquarters are in Etchmiadzin, Armenia, is making his first pastoral trip to the United States and Canada in conjunction with celebration of the 1,700th anniversary of the proclamation of Christianity as Armenia’s State Religion.

Parking restrictions will be lifted in Lots J and A. For information, call 278-2669.