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]
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PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
THE BOARD OF THE SWISS-ARMENIAN FOUNDATION ARMENOFAS MEETS IN ANTELIAS
On Friday 9 October 2009, the Board of the ARMENOFAS Foundation met in
Antelias under the auspices of His Holiness Aram I. The Foundation was
created during the Armenian Genocide by Swiss friends of the Armenians in
order to take care of the victims of the Genocide. For many years the
Foundation assisted the Old People’s Home of the Prelacy of the Armenian
Church in Greece.
According to Swiss Foundation laws, and on the basis of the long-standing
by-laws of the ARMENOFAS, the Swiss Protestant Churches transferred the
ownership of Foundation to His Holiness Aram I Catholicos of the Holy See of
Cilicia. As a sign of gratitude, and in order to keep alive the memories of
the Swiss benefactors and Armenian martyrs, His Holiness Aram I invited the
Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches to continue nominating two
representatives on the Board.
The new Board consists of: Mrs. Teny Simonian (President, Switzerland)
Jurist François Payot (Vice-President, Switzerland). Members: Bishop Khoren
Doghramadjian (Greece), Mrs. Haigouhi Yaghdjian (Greece), Rev. Rudolf Renfer
(Switzerland), Mr. Alexan Keucheyan (Switzerland), Mr. Dikran Jimbachian
(Member of the Executive Committee of the Catholicosate, Lebanon), and Miss
Arpie Tcheboukdjian (Consultant on Financial Matters, Lebanon).
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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.