
Episode 503 | Recorded: January 9, 2026
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Fr. Serop Azarian has served in the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Church between 1999-2007, the Western Diocese of the United States between 2007-2010, and the Canadian Diocese 2011-2014. Born in Kuwait, he immigrated to the United States of America in 1987, and served in the US Army as a guardsman and is a Veteran. He pursued his university education in Montclair University, Alliance University and Nazarene Bible College with a Bachelors degree in Divinity and Biblical Studies. Fr. Serop is a priest educator and sporadic visiting pastor since 2014, and presently works in Clark county, Nevada as a court interpreter.

Hovik Manucharyan is an information security engineer who moved from Seattle to Armenia in 2022. He co-founded the ANN/Groong podcast in 2020 and has been a contributor to Groong News since the late 1990s.
Disclaimer: The views expressed by Hovik Manucharyan on the ANN/Groong podcast are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of his employer or any other organization.

Asbed Bedrossian is an IT professional, and for years oversaw the central IT enterprise infrastructure and services at USC. His decades of experience spanned across IT strategy, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, data center operations, high performance computing, ITSM, ITPM, and more.
Asbed founded the Armenian News Network Groong circa 1989/1990, and co-founded the ANN/Groong podcast in 2020.