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
Web:

PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version:

Watch the recorded video of the message of His Holiness Aram I on the
occasion of the 3rd Pan-Armenian Writers’ Conference held in Antelias here:

Re ad the message of His Holiness Aram I in Armenian here:
Messages/messages5.htm

HIS HOLINESS ARAM I BESTOWS LEVON ANANIAN WITH
THE “ST MESROB MASHDOTS” INSIGNIA

His Holiness Aram I praised all the participants in the Third Pan-Armenian
Writers’ Conference and all Armenian writers in Armenia and the Diaspora in
his remarks during the ceremonial closing of the conference on April 9.

The Armenian Pontiff particularly commended the president of the Writers’
Union of Armenia, Levon Ananian. V. Rev. Fr. Norair Ashekian read the
Pontifical letter and the public attended carefully to the utmost levels of
Pontifical praise addressed to Levon Ananian. In his Pontifical encyclical,
His Holiness pointed out that all Armenian writers and intellectuals are
praised through Ananian.

On the sounds of excited claps from the public, His Holiness Aram I placed
the “St. Mesrob Mashdots” insignia on the chest of Levon Ananian, a true
servant of the Armenian language and literature.

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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.