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
PONTIFICAL VISIT OF HIS HOLINESS ARAM I TO SYRIA
On Friday 16 October 2009, His Holiness Aram I and his entourage left for
Syria on an official visit. The visit will begin in Latakia and then His
Holiness will go to Kessab. In Latakia Catholicos Aram will preside over
events organized in his honour by the community, and he will address them
through his pastoral message. In Kessab he will consecrate the new church in
the village of Karaduran, which will serve the whole region. Kessab and its
surrounding villages have been inhabited by Armenians since very early
times. Here too His Holiness Aram I will address the people through a
spiritual and pastoral message.
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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.