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Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
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Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version:

THE ARMENIAN CHURCH PARTICIPATES IN THE
WCC ECUMENICAL OFFICERS’ MEETING

The Ecumenical Officers’ meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC)
was held on May 7-8 in the WCC headquarters of Geneva. The Armenian Church
was represented in the meeting by Rev. Fr. Hovagim Manougian (Ecumenical
Officer of the Catholicosate of All Armenian in Etchmiyadzine) and Bishop
Nareg Alemezian (Ecumenical Officer of the Catholicosate of Cilicia). Bishop
Alemezian was also elected as a member of the meeting’s executive committee.

Mrs. Teni Simonian, a WCC senior official, participated in the meeting on
behalf of WCC.

The meeting brought together about 45 participants from various churches
across Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, Northern America and the Middle
East. The delegates, both religious and non-religious, discussed a number of
local, regional and international ecumenical issues. They first focused on
grasping the new working system adopted by the WCC and the imperative of
cooperation with churches and then examined the possibilities of cooperation
between all the structures involved in ecumenical relations.

The members of the newly formed Youth Committee also participated in the
discussions of the second day of the meeting. The committee includes from
the Eastern Prelacy, Nayiri Baldjian representing the Armenian Catholicosate
of Cilicia.

Bishop Nareg introduced the major aspects of the Catholicosate of Cilicia’s
ecumenical and inter-faith work and emphasized that His Holiness Aram I pays
great attention in this respect to the active participation of the youth and
their good formation.

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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.