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: nian.htm

THE ARMENIAN CHURCH DELEGATION PARTICIPATES
IN THE ENTRHOWMENT OF THE NEW PATRIARCH OF ROMANIA

Having received a personal invitation to attend the enthronement ceremony of
Romania’s newly elected Patriarch, Archbishop Daniel, Catholicos Aram I sent
an official delegation formed of Archbishop Gomidas Ohanian and V. Rev.
Shahe Panossian to participate in the ceremony.

Archbishop Daniel has been a personal friend of His Holiness Aram I for over
thirty years. He has been a member of the Central Committee of the World
Council of Churches (WCC), which was moderated by His Holiness Aram I for
about two decades. On this occasion, the Catholicos sent a special
congratulatory letter to the new Patriarch and a Pontifical souvenir with
the delegation.

After the ceremony, the delegation members congratulated the new Patriarch
on behalf of His Holiness Aram I, wishing to His Holiness Daniel a
successful tenure as the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. On this
occasion, they reaffirmed the close and brotherly cooperation for many years
now between the Pontifical Holy See of the Armenian Church, the
Catholicosate of Cilicia and the Orthodox Church of Romania.

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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.