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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.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I MEETS WITH REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE COPTIC ORTHODOX AND SYRIAN ORTHDOX PATRIARCHS
On Thursday 16 July 2009, Metropolitan Amba Bishoy of Damiette General
Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, representative of
H.H. Pope Shenouda III, and Mor Theophilos George Saliba of Mount Lebanon
Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church, representative of
Patriarch Zakka I, met with His Holiness Aram I in his summer residence in
Bikfaya (Lebanon).
The meetings focused on ecumenical concerns arising from the difficulties in
the World Council of Churches and the Middle East Council of Churches, and
the way these difficulties impact the lives of the churches globally and
regionally. At the end the General Secretary of the Middle East Council of
Churches Dr. Gergis Saleh joined the meeting.
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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.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.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.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I MEETS WITH REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE COPTIC ORTHODOX AND SYRIAN ORTHDOX PATRIARCHS
On Thursday 16 July 2009, Metropolitan Amba Bishoy of Damiette General
Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, representative of
H.H. Pope Shenouda III, and Mor Theophilos George Saliba of Mount Lebanon
Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church, representative of
Patriarch Zakka I, met with His Holiness Aram I in his summer residence in
Bikfaya (Lebanon).
The meetings focused on ecumenical concerns arising from the difficulties in
the World Council of Churches and the Middle East Council of Churches, and
the way these difficulties impact the lives of the churches globally and
regionally. At the end the General Secretary of the Middle East Council of
Churches Dr. Gergis Saleh joined the meeting.
##
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.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.