Athens News Agency, Greece
January 15, 2010 Friday

-IETHA AETHA ARMENIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CATHOLICOS ARAM I OF CILICIA IN ATHENS

(ANA-MPA) — Armenian Orthodox Church Catholicos Aram I of Cilicia
arrived in Greece on Friday morning for a two-day visit.

He was welcomed at Athens Airport by representatives of the Church of
Greece, state officials, Armenian Church members and the ambassadors
of Armenia and Lebanon.

Following a mass at the Cathedral of St. Gregory in downtown Athens,
Aram was received by President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias.

On Saturday the Armenian Patriarch will meet with Athens Mayor Nikitas
Kaklamanis, and will subsequently be received by Archbishop Ieronymos
of Athens and All Greece. Later in the evening, he will officiate at
the vespers held in the church of St. Jacob, in the Piraeus district
of Nikea.