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:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version:
COMM UNIQUE (? 1)
“Culture of Cilician Armenia”
International Conference in Antelias
“Culture of Cilician Armenia” International Conference will take place
January 18-20, 2007, in Antelias-Lebanon by the initiation and under
patronage of His Holiness Catholicos Aram I, in cooperation with the
Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia and Yerevan Mashtots
Matenadaran.
The Conference will cover the following areas:
1.. History: History of culture of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia:
geopolitical, inter-political and inter-church relations.
2.. Medieval Armenian Universities: The influence of Cilician scriptoria
in the development of Armenian literature and scripture art. Medieval
universities and their cooperation.
3.. Law: Medieval law and Cilician Constitution. Inter-state and
inter-church relations and the aspect of law. Right to heritage and medieval
social relations.
4.. Art: Miniature, applied arts, architecture: monasteries, fortresses,
secular constructions.
5.. Ethnography: Cilician national ceremonies, holidays, dresses, life and
traditions.
6.. Cilician Holy Relics: Relics of Saints brought to Antelias from
Cilicia.
7.. Economy: Cilician money, Cilician trade relations, scales and measure
units, Cilician marine and soil trade ways.
8.. Summery: Cilician phenomenon after the fall of the Armenian Kingdom of
Cilicia.
For more information about the Conference you may visit the following
sites: and or write to the
following addresses:
Arshak Banuchyan, Yerevan Bishop Nareg Alemezian, Antelias
Tel: (+374 10) 56 27 69 Tel: (+961 4) 410001
Fax: (+374 10) 52 04 20 Fax: (+961 4) 417971
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Organi zing Committee
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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 history and
mission 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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
