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: cathcil@cathcil.org
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PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version:

HIS HOLINESS WILL PRESIDE OVER AN INTERNATIONAL

ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE

Antelias, Lebanon – His Holiness Aram I traveled to Geneva on June
4 to preside over a meeting of the chancery of the World Council of
Churches’ (WCC) executive committee and to hold meetings with senior
officials from the WCC.

His Holiness will also deliver the opening remarks of the international
ecumenical conference to be held in Geneva. It is the first time
ever that WCC organizes such a conference. Around 200 senior
representatives of all the world’s religions will participate
in the conference. Primate of the Diocese of Tehran, Archbishop
Sebouh Sarkissian will participate in the meeting on behalf of the
Catholicosate of Cilicia.

His Holiness will both preside over the conference and be the keynote
speaker. Rev.Fr. Masdots Tchobanian, the Christian Education officer
of the Catholicosate of Cilicia accompanies His Holiness to Geneva. The
delegation will return to Antelias in five days.

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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, The
Cilician Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is
located in Antelias, Lebanon.