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 ARAM I MEETS WITH THE NEW ARMENIAN
MP IN THE CYPRIOT PARLIAMENT

His Holiness Aram I received the newly elected Armenian MP in the Cypriot
Parliament, Vartkes Mahdessian in the Veharan on June 5. The MP visited
Antelias to receive the Pontiff’s blessings as a new MP. Archbishop Varoujan
Hergelian (Catholicosal Vicar to Cyprus) and Tsolag Tutelian (member of the
Central Executive Council) also attended the meeting.

The Catholicos congratulated Mahdessian on his election. He advised the MP
that as the representative of the entire Armenian community of Cyprus, he
should work with commitment to strengthen to comprehensiveness and internal
unity of the community. The Pontiff added that the MP should coordinate
efforts with the Catholicosal Vicar to Cyprus, to gather the
Cypriot-Armenians around the Church.

His Holiness advised that the government-Armenian community contacts should
be more organized always having the community’s collective interests in
mind. The MP promised to do his best in this direction in cooperation with
all the structures of the community.

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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.