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 RECEIVES THE AMBASSADOR OF BULGARIA

His Holiness Aram I received the Ambassador of Bulgaria to Lebanon, His
Excellency Veneline Lazarov in Antelias on April 10. The first ever visit by
the ambassador to the Catholicos lasted for over an hour.

The Bulgarian diplomat and the Pontiff talked about the current situation
in Lebanon, the mission of international forces and the peace process in the
Middle East in general.

His Holiness explained to the Ambassador the structure of the Armenian
Church with its administrative divisions, diocesan units, its work in the
area of spiritual renewal through Christian education and specially through
the reassessment of religious-moral values in the lives of the youth.

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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
the 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.