Detroit — Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron is scheduled to take part in several ecumenical and interfaith events in the coming weeks.

First, on April 19, the archbishop will pick up a discussion on the Old Testament left off last year with Rabbi Joseph Krakoff of Southfield’s Congregation Shaarey Zedek at the Berman Theatre in West Bloomfield.

The dialogue, called “In the Beginning,” will focus on the similarities and differences between the Catholic and Jewish interpretations of the Book of Job. It is the third part of a discussion between the two faith leaders that began last year with a two-part public dialogue on the book of Genesis. In those dialogues, the rabbi and archbishop discussed the Garden of Eden and creation narratives, as well as the binding of Isaac.

On April 24, the archbishop will be one of several Metro Detroit faith leaders who will participate in a special interfaith service to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the Armenian genocide in Turkey during World War I. The 7:30 p.m. service, during which Archbishop Vigneron will give the principal homily, will be at St. Mary’s Antiochian Orthodox Basilica, 18100 Merriman Road in Livonia and will also include a solemn recognition of the nearly 1.5 million Armenians who perished during a forced evacuation from the Ottoman-Turkish Empire from 1915 to 1918.

The service is part of an ongoing commemoration sponsored by the Armenian Churches of Greater Detroit Centennial Committee.

Finally, Archbishop Vigneron is expected to take part in the 73rd annual Rabbi B. Benedict and Ada S. Glazer Institute on Judaism’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s document Nostra Aetate on April 27. The document, which was the council’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, helped normalize relations between the Catholic Church and members of the Jewish faith and others and is credited with ushering in a new age of interfaith dialogue.

The 1-3 p.m. Glazer Institute dialogue, “The Legacy of Vatican II,” will be held at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Hills and is also open to clergy and lay leaders of other faiths in the Metro Detroit area.