PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
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ANTELIAS HOLDS A REQUIEM SERVICE IN THE MEMORY OF GREAT ARMENOLOGIST
CATHOLICOS KAREKIN I HOVSEPIANTS
In the context of the Conference on the "Culture of Cilician Armenia"
organized in Antelias, a requiem service was held on January 14 in memory of
one of the well-known Spiritual Head of the Cilician See, great
Armenologist, historian and philosopher Catholicos Karekin I Hovsepiants.
His Holiness Aram I presided over the service held near the "Zarehian
Mausoleum" in Antelias.
Standing near the tomb of the late Catholicos as his worthy successor, His
Holiness said: "I am confident that the soul of Catholicos Hovsepiants is
extremely happy at this moment, when he looks down from his heavenly retreat
to this conference taking place in the new Cilicia he cultivated both
spiritually and culturally- the Catholicosate of Cilicia. As Karekin I
Hovsepiants often himself said: ‘We lost the material Cilicia, let’s build
the new spiritual Cilicia.’ That new Cilicia was the cultural and spiritual
rising in the life of our people through our Holy See."
The Pontiff then invited Vicar General and most senior member of the
Cilician Brotherhood, Archbishop Ardavazt Terterian to give his testimony on
the prominent Spiritual Leader as his former student. The Archbishop upheld
Catholicos Karekin I Hovsepiants’ productiveness in spiritual, national,
cultural, historical and armenology-related fields, mentioning some of the
dreams of the Catholicos, which were later realized by his successors. "And
Catholicos Aram I continues on the same path today," observed the
Archbishop.
The Requiem Service was followed by the last session of the conference for
the day which involved discussions on the Cilician Holy Relics and the
renovation of handwritten manuscripts.
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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.