SYRIAN MUFTI IS PRESENT AT SAINT LITURGY IN MOTHER SEE
Noyan Tapan
Sept 05 2006
ETCHMIADZIN, SEPTEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The delegation headed by Sheikh
Ahmed Badr-Eddine Hassoun, the Grand Mufti of the Arab Republic of
Syria, was present at the Saint Liturgy celebrated in the Mother See
of Holy on September 3.
At the beginning of the liturgy, Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and
Catholicos of All Armenians and the Grand Mufti of the Arab Republic
of Syria, accompanied by a great procession of churchmen, were led
to the Mother Cathedral. The officiating priest was Archbishop Yeznik
Petrosian, the Mother See responsible for interchurch relations.
Then the two spiritual leaders returned the Patriarchate where the
two delegations' meeting took place. During the meeting, the Grand
Mufti of Syria passed to His Holiness greetings and best wishes of
President of the Arab Republic of Syria Bashar Al-Assad.
The Catholicos of All Armenians, in his turn, thanked for the careful
attitude that the President of Syria and his predecessors have always
shown towards sons of the Armenian nation.
According to the information submitted to Noyan Tapan by the
Information Services of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Gabriel
Geara, the Ambassador of the Republic of Lebanon to the RA, and doctor
Moukhlis Faraun, the Charge d'Affairs of the Arab Republic of Syria
to the RA, were also present at the meeting.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Noyan Tapan
Sept 05 2006
ETCHMIADZIN, SEPTEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The delegation headed by Sheikh
Ahmed Badr-Eddine Hassoun, the Grand Mufti of the Arab Republic of
Syria, was present at the Saint Liturgy celebrated in the Mother See
of Holy on September 3.
At the beginning of the liturgy, Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and
Catholicos of All Armenians and the Grand Mufti of the Arab Republic
of Syria, accompanied by a great procession of churchmen, were led
to the Mother Cathedral. The officiating priest was Archbishop Yeznik
Petrosian, the Mother See responsible for interchurch relations.
Then the two spiritual leaders returned the Patriarchate where the
two delegations' meeting took place. During the meeting, the Grand
Mufti of Syria passed to His Holiness greetings and best wishes of
President of the Arab Republic of Syria Bashar Al-Assad.
The Catholicos of All Armenians, in his turn, thanked for the careful
attitude that the President of Syria and his predecessors have always
shown towards sons of the Armenian nation.
According to the information submitted to Noyan Tapan by the
Information Services of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Gabriel
Geara, the Ambassador of the Republic of Lebanon to the RA, and doctor
Moukhlis Faraun, the Charge d'Affairs of the Arab Republic of Syria
to the RA, were also present at the meeting.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress