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Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cathcil.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version: http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Armenian.htm
HIS HOLINESS MEETS WITH PATRIARCH TARMOUNI
His Holiness Aram I met with Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX (Tarmouni) in
Bikfaya on September 14. Bishops Vartan Ashkarian, Manuel Batakian, Krikor
Gabroyan, Hovhannes Teirouzian, Neshan Keheyan and Vartabeds Antranig
Geranian, Kevork Yeghiayan as well as Mr. Sarkis Nadjarian accompanied the
spiritual leader of the Armenian catholics of Lebanon.
Also present at the meeting were Bishop Kegham Khatcherian, Primate of the
Diocese of Lebanon, Bishop Nareg Alemezian, Ecumenical Officer of the
Catholicosate of Cilicia, and V. Rev. Fr. Krikor Chiftjian, Communications
Officer of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
The spiritual leaders discussed various issues related to the current
situation in Lebanon and the recent regional and international developments.
They also talked about important issues in Armenian, Christian and national
life, as well as the preparatory works for the third Armenia-Diaspora
conference in Yerevan.
Praising the united stand of the Armenian community of Lebanon and its
unified political approach to the recent developments in the country, the
Pontiff and the Patriarch stressed that the community should follow this
path as a source of its strength. The two spiritual leaders also discussed
the new challenges Churches face within the context of ecumenical and
inter-religious relations.
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View photos here: http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Photos/Photos1.htm
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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the Ecumenical
activities of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, http://www.cathcil.org/ The Cilician Catholicosate, the
administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cathcil.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version: http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Armenian.htm
HIS HOLINESS MEETS WITH PATRIARCH TARMOUNI
His Holiness Aram I met with Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX (Tarmouni) in
Bikfaya on September 14. Bishops Vartan Ashkarian, Manuel Batakian, Krikor
Gabroyan, Hovhannes Teirouzian, Neshan Keheyan and Vartabeds Antranig
Geranian, Kevork Yeghiayan as well as Mr. Sarkis Nadjarian accompanied the
spiritual leader of the Armenian catholics of Lebanon.
Also present at the meeting were Bishop Kegham Khatcherian, Primate of the
Diocese of Lebanon, Bishop Nareg Alemezian, Ecumenical Officer of the
Catholicosate of Cilicia, and V. Rev. Fr. Krikor Chiftjian, Communications
Officer of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
The spiritual leaders discussed various issues related to the current
situation in Lebanon and the recent regional and international developments.
They also talked about important issues in Armenian, Christian and national
life, as well as the preparatory works for the third Armenia-Diaspora
conference in Yerevan.
Praising the united stand of the Armenian community of Lebanon and its
unified political approach to the recent developments in the country, the
Pontiff and the Patriarch stressed that the community should follow this
path as a source of its strength. The two spiritual leaders also discussed
the new challenges Churches face within the context of ecumenical and
inter-religious relations.
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View photos here: http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Photos/Photos1.htm
*****
The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the Ecumenical
activities of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, http://www.cathcil.org/ The Cilician Catholicosate, the
administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.