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: info@armenianorthodoxchurch.org
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PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version: nian.htm

HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES ARCHBISHOP MATAR
AND THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF MECC

His Holiness Aram I received the Primate of the Maronite Church in Beirut
and Vicar to the Maronite Patriarch Archbishop Boulos Matar in Antelias on
January 26. Gerges Saleh, the General Secretary of the Middle East Council
of Churches, accompanied the Bishop.

The talks focused on ecumenical affairs and issues related to the Middle
East Council of Churches (MECC). As the newly elected Presidents of MECC,
they discussed a number of issues emerging from the last assembly of the
MECC. They also went through the programs of the Council for the coming
period.

The first meeting of the new Executive Committee will take place in
Antelias, from 4-7 March 2008.

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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.