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Catholicosate of Cilicia
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Armenian version: nian.htm

MECC OFFICIALS MEET WITH HIS HOLINESS ARAM I IN ANTELIAS

Senior officials from the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) held a
meeting in Antelias on December 8. The President of the Council’s Catholic
Churches, Archbishop Matar, General Secretary Dr. Georges Saleh, Vice
Chairman of the Finance Committee Dr. Habib Badr and other senior officials
attended the meeting, which was chaired by His Holiness Aram I.

The participants reviewed and assessed the main aspects of the MECC’s
activities over the last few months as well as the meeting held with the
representatives of the ecumenical partners.

The meeting adopted important decisions of administrative and financial
nature to be executed at two stages. During the meeting His Holiness also
held a phone conversation with Dr. Sam Kobia, the General Secretary of the
World Council of Churches to discuss the prospects of further expanding the
cooperation between the two councils.

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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.