Press Release
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
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Armenian version:

HIS HOLINESS ARAM I MEETS WITH THE SPIRITUAL HEAD
OF THE SYRIAN CHURCH

His Holiness Aram I met with the spiritual leader of the Syrian Church,
Patriarch Zakka Iwas I in the Syrian Monastery in Atshaneh on June 15.
Patriarch Zakka was visiting Lebanon on a personal one-day trip.

Bishop Nareg Alemezian, Ecumenical Officer of the Catholicosate, and Bishop
George Saliba, Primate of the Syrians of Lebanon, also attended the meeting.

The two spiritual leaders discussed the proceedings of the last meeting,
held in Antelias, of the executive committee of the Oriental Orthodox
Churches in the Middle East. They also discussed the upcoming meeting
between the three spiritual leaders of these churches (Pope Shnouda III,
Patriarch Zakka I and His Holiness Aram I) in November, as well as the
ecumenical gathering organized by the Russian Church in Moscow at the
beginning of July. The Catholicos has been invited to attend this meeting.

After the meeting, His Holiness had lunch with Patriarch Zakka.

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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.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress