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: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
THE ARMENIAN CHURCH PARTICIPATES IN THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SECRETARIES OF
CHRISTIAN WORLD COMMUNIONS
11-15 November 2009, the Secretaries of Christian World Communions (CWCs)
met at Canterbury, London. Around thirty persons representing the major
Christian families attended the meeting. His Grace Bishop Nareg Alamezian
the Ecumenical Officer represented the Armenian Church.
In his report to the meeting, Bishop Nareg informed the participants of the
ecumenical and interreligious work of the Catholicosate, and the theological
dialogue between the three Oriental churches under the auspices of the
Meeting of the Heads of the Oriental Orthodox Churches.
While in Canterbury he met with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan
Williams and transmitted the greetings of His Holiness Aram I. He also met
with Revd. Alyson Barnett Cowan Director of Ecumenical Relations of the
Anglican Consultative Council, and exchanged views on ecumenical relations.
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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.