PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Father Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version:
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I TO DELIVER LECTURES
IN THE UNITED STATES
His Holiness Aram I departed for the United States on November 30 where he
will deliver a series of lectures in various universities and receive the
prominent Pax Christi award.
His Holiness Aram I will be the keynote speaker of an international
conference organized jointly by the Indiana State University and Notre Dame
University. He will deliver another lecture in the St. John’s University in
Illinois. This second lecture will be followed by a special ceremony, during
which the Armenian Catholicos will be awarded the Pax Christi medal, which
is recognized as one of most important academic awards in the United States.
His Holiness Aram I’s first stop, however, in his one-week journey, will be
Detroit, where he will lecture during the youth conference organized by the
Prelacies under the jurisdiction of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
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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.