PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: info@ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org
Web:

PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

TWO PRIESTS WERE MADE DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH

On Sunday following the Liturgy, upon the authorization of His Holiness Aram
I Father Stepannos Pashayan and Fr. Varant Kortmosian received the title
Vartabed (Doctor of the Church). They received the ecclesiastical honor of
staff after they defended their thesis in front of the jury headed by
Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian, and confessed their orthodox faith.

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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.