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
Armenian version: nian.htm
THE ARMENIAN CHURCH PARTICIPATES IN THE MEETING OF ORTHODOX AND ORIENTAL
ORTHODOX CHURCHES AND BIBLE SOCIETY
The meeting of the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches and Bible Society
was held on November 19-21 in Moscow.
Bishop Nareg Alemezian (Ecumenical Officer) participated in the conference
on behalf of the Catholicosate of Cilicia of the Armenian Church. The
Catholicosate of All Armenian in Etchmiyadzine delegated Archbishop Yeznig
Bedrossian (Ecumenical Officer).
Official cooperation between Orthodox Churches and Bible Society has reached
new lengths since 1999 through the holding of annual meetings.
This meeting discussed the content of the agreement to be signed between the
Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches on the one hand and the Bible
Society on the other. It also prepared the agenda of the next meeting, to be
held in September 2008.
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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.