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PRESS RELEASE
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
THE TWO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ARMENIAN CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA PARTICIPATE
ACTIVELY IN THE DELIBERATIONS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE WORLD COUNCIL
OF CHURCHES
On 26 August the meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of
Churches began in Geneva. In the first part of agenda the members received
the reports of the Moderator and the General Secretary, met as regional
groups, and discussed the venue of the next Assembly in 2013. After
approving the agenda of the forthcoming International Ecumenical Peace
Convocation (IEPC) to be held in Jamaica in May 2011, the Committee elected
the new General Secretray, Norwegian theologian and pastor Rev. Dr Olav
Fykse Tveit,. He will be succeeding outgoing general secretary Rev. Dr
Samuel Kobia.
After plenary sessions the members of the Central Committee met in
committees. His Grace Bishop Nareg Alemezian chaired the Policy Reference
Committee and Dr. Nora Bayrakdarian-Kabakian participated in the work of the
Public Issues Committee and presented to the plenary the report on the
Middle East.
On Sunday 30 August 2009, during the farewell in honor of the outgoing
General Secretary Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia, His Grace Bishop Nareg read the
message of His Holiness Aram I, who has been Moderator of the World Council
of Churches Central and Executive Committees for two terms (1991-2006).
The next meeting of the Central Committee will be held in February 2011.
The Armenian Church has four members at the Central Committee of the World
Council of Churches. Archbishop Vicken Aykazian and Ms. Paula Devedzian,
representing the Holy See of Etchmiadzin, and Bishop Nareg Alemezian and Dr.
Nora Bayrakdarian-Kabakian, representing the Holy See of Cilicia.
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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
THE TWO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ARMENIAN CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA PARTICIPATE
ACTIVELY IN THE DELIBERATIONS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE WORLD COUNCIL
OF CHURCHES
On 26 August the meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of
Churches began in Geneva. In the first part of agenda the members received
the reports of the Moderator and the General Secretary, met as regional
groups, and discussed the venue of the next Assembly in 2013. After
approving the agenda of the forthcoming International Ecumenical Peace
Convocation (IEPC) to be held in Jamaica in May 2011, the Committee elected
the new General Secretray, Norwegian theologian and pastor Rev. Dr Olav
Fykse Tveit,. He will be succeeding outgoing general secretary Rev. Dr
Samuel Kobia.
After plenary sessions the members of the Central Committee met in
committees. His Grace Bishop Nareg Alemezian chaired the Policy Reference
Committee and Dr. Nora Bayrakdarian-Kabakian participated in the work of the
Public Issues Committee and presented to the plenary the report on the
Middle East.
On Sunday 30 August 2009, during the farewell in honor of the outgoing
General Secretary Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia, His Grace Bishop Nareg read the
message of His Holiness Aram I, who has been Moderator of the World Council
of Churches Central and Executive Committees for two terms (1991-2006).
The next meeting of the Central Committee will be held in February 2011.
The Armenian Church has four members at the Central Committee of the World
Council of Churches. Archbishop Vicken Aykazian and Ms. Paula Devedzian,
representing the Holy See of Etchmiadzin, and Bishop Nareg Alemezian and Dr.
Nora Bayrakdarian-Kabakian, representing the Holy See of Cilicia.
##
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.