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: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version: nian.htm
ANTELIAS HOLDS A REQUIEM SERVICE IN MEMORY OF
FORMER CATHOLICOI
A requiem service was held in the Catholicosate of Cilicia in Antelias on
January 27 to honor the memory of former Catholicoi of the Holy See of
Cilicia. Following the Sunday Mass in the Mother Church, a Procession of the
Cilician Brotherhood members and Seminary students headed by His Holiness
Aram I guided the faithful to the "Zarehian Mausoleum" in the vicinity of
the Cathedral.
The requiem service ended with the "Cilicia" and "I Veh Partsants" hymns,
performed jointly by the choir and the faithful.
It has become an annual tradition to hold requiem service for the souls of
the former Catholicoi of Cilicia on the Sunday following the Holiday of
Saint Sahag Bartev.
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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.