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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I BEGINS FIVE-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT
TO THE MALANKARA ORTHODOX SYRIAN CHURCH IN INDIA
On Tuesday 23 February 2010, His Holiness Aram I left for India today in
response to the invitation of His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Didymus I,
Catholicos of the East and Malankara, of the Orthodox Syrian Church. His
Holiness is accompanied by Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian, Prelate of Tehran
(Iran), Bishop Nareg Alemizian (Ecumenical Officer) and Father Mesrob
Sarkissian (Staff-Bearer).
While in India he will meet with Heads of Churches and other Communities.
His Holiness will also lecture at the Kottayam Orthodox Theological Seminary
and address clergy, theologians and academics in different institutions that
he will be visiting.
On his way back Catholicos Aram will visit the United Arab Emirates and meet
with Armenian communities in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharja.
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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.