PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Watch our latest videos on YouTube here:
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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I MEETS WITH THE
COPTIC AND SYRIAN ORTHODOX METROPOLITANS
On Wednesday evening, 12 June, His Holiness Aram I met with the Oriental
Orthodox representatives of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC)
Executive Committee. Metropolitan George Saliba of Mount Lebanon and
Metropolitan Daniel of Beirut represented the Syrian Orthodox Church.
Metropolitan Amba Bishoy, Secretary of the Holy Synod, and Metropolitan
Benjamin, assistant to the Pope, represented the Coptic Orthodox Church: and
His Eminence Archbishop Nareg Alemezian attended as the Ecumenical Officer
of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
The Metropolitans discussed with Catholicos Aram I the situation in the
Middle East, a strengthened role for the Middle East Council of Churches and
ways of effective cooperation between the Coptic, Syrian and the Armenian
Orthodox Churches in the region.
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Watch our latest videos on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HolySeeOfCilicia
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I MEETS WITH THE
COPTIC AND SYRIAN ORTHODOX METROPOLITANS
On Wednesday evening, 12 June, His Holiness Aram I met with the Oriental
Orthodox representatives of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC)
Executive Committee. Metropolitan George Saliba of Mount Lebanon and
Metropolitan Daniel of Beirut represented the Syrian Orthodox Church.
Metropolitan Amba Bishoy, Secretary of the Holy Synod, and Metropolitan
Benjamin, assistant to the Pope, represented the Coptic Orthodox Church: and
His Eminence Archbishop Nareg Alemezian attended as the Ecumenical Officer
of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
The Metropolitans discussed with Catholicos Aram I the situation in the
Middle East, a strengthened role for the Middle East Council of Churches and
ways of effective cooperation between the Coptic, Syrian and the Armenian
Orthodox Churches in the region.