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
Web:

PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version: nian.htm

FORMER AMERICAN AMBASSADOR EXPRESSES THANKS
TO THE CATHOLICOS

The Ambassador of the United States to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman, had visited
His Holiness Aram I prior to his departure from Lebanon at the end of the
term to thank the Catholicos and bid him farewell.

In a personal note addressed to the Armenian Pontiff recently, the former
Ambassador once again expressed his "gratitude for [the Pontiff’s]
friendship and wisdom" with the expectation that the contacts will continue
in Washington, where his new appointment is. The Ambassador also expresses
his well wishes for the Armenian community of Lebanon.

Ambassador Feltman, who served in Lebanon for about four years, has now
taken up a more responsible post in the State Department in Washington as
the first deputy to the state secretary’s assistant on the Near East.

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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.