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
His Holiness Aram I receives the President of the University
of Louvain Professor Bernard Coulie
Catholicos Aram I received on March 14 Professor Dr. Bernard Coulie, the
president of the University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve. Dr. Coulie, an
Orientalist and an Armenologist, was also accompanied by the directors of
the Oriental and atomic institutes. The University of Louvain is one of the
most important universities of Europe with about 25,000 students.
The Pontiff and his guests discussed academic issues as well as topics
related to Armenological and Oriental studies. The Catholicos also talked
about possibilities for future cooperation with between the Catholicosate of
Cilicia and the University of Louvain. The University’s President and his
delegation then visited the "Cilicia" Museum.
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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.