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
THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE MIDDLE EAST COUNCIL OF CHURCHES CONSULTS WITH
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I
Dr. Guirgis Saleh was among those who visited Antelias on Monday 29 June
2009. Mrs. Seta Hadeshian, Director of the Unit Life and Service,
accompanied him.
The purpose of the visit was to consult with His Holiness Aram I, a
President of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), on the
restructuring report to the Executive Committee Meeting in 17 July 2009. The
MECC is currently facing difficulties that call for its radical
reorganization. His Holiness Aram I advised the General Secretary to take
into account the current financial crisis and the status of ecumenical
relations in the proposal to the Executive Committee.
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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.