PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
CATHOLICOS ARAM I CONGRATULATED THE MARONITE PATRIARCH BESHARA RAI
ON BEING NAMED A CARDINAL BY POPE BENEDICT XVIth
On Friday 5 December 2012, His Holiness Aram I met with Patriarch Rai at the
Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke. Catholicos Aram I congratulated the new
Cardinal, and then they held a private meeting whereby they discussed the
situation in the region and particularly in Syria; the new electoral law and
the formation of a new government in Lebanon. At the end the Catholicos and
the Patriarch discussed the possibility of holding a meeting of the Heads of
all Churcches in the Middle East.
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Photo: http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/v04/doc/Photos/Photos785.htm
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
CATHOLICOS ARAM I CONGRATULATED THE MARONITE PATRIARCH BESHARA RAI
ON BEING NAMED A CARDINAL BY POPE BENEDICT XVIth
On Friday 5 December 2012, His Holiness Aram I met with Patriarch Rai at the
Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke. Catholicos Aram I congratulated the new
Cardinal, and then they held a private meeting whereby they discussed the
situation in the region and particularly in Syria; the new electoral law and
the formation of a new government in Lebanon. At the end the Catholicos and
the Patriarch discussed the possibility of holding a meeting of the Heads of
all Churcches in the Middle East.
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Photo: http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/v04/doc/Photos/Photos785.htm