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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: http://www.cathcil.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version: http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Armenian.htm
THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES
IN THE MIDDLE EAST MEETS IN ANTELIAS
A meeting of the Standing Committee of Oriental Orthodox Churches, which
have their headquarters in the Middle East, was held in Antelias on April 16
with the participation of representatives from the Coptic, Syrian and
Armenian Churches.
This meeting, which precedes the annual meeting of the three Oriental
Orthodox spiritual Heads, carried out a number of preparatory tasks
regarding the agenda of the upcoming meeting.
The members of the Standing Committee, headed by Metropolitan Bishoy
(Coptic Orthodox Church), Metropolitan George Saliba (Syrian Orthodox
Church) and Bishop Nareg Alemezian (Armenian Orthodox Church- Catholicosate
of Cilicia), had an audience with His Holiness Aram I to have his guidance
in respect to agenda items. His Holiness emphasized the importance of
ecumenical meetings which must give a clear priority to collaboration
between the churches on the local level, he said: "Ecumenism remains a
conceptual notion if it is not translated into a quality of life and
collaboration on the local level".
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: http://www.cathcil.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version: http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Armenian.htm
THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES
IN THE MIDDLE EAST MEETS IN ANTELIAS
A meeting of the Standing Committee of Oriental Orthodox Churches, which
have their headquarters in the Middle East, was held in Antelias on April 16
with the participation of representatives from the Coptic, Syrian and
Armenian Churches.
This meeting, which precedes the annual meeting of the three Oriental
Orthodox spiritual Heads, carried out a number of preparatory tasks
regarding the agenda of the upcoming meeting.
The members of the Standing Committee, headed by Metropolitan Bishoy
(Coptic Orthodox Church), Metropolitan George Saliba (Syrian Orthodox
Church) and Bishop Nareg Alemezian (Armenian Orthodox Church- Catholicosate
of Cilicia), had an audience with His Holiness Aram I to have his guidance
in respect to agenda items. His Holiness emphasized the importance of
ecumenical meetings which must give a clear priority to collaboration
between the churches on the local level, he said: "Ecumenism remains a
conceptual notion if it is not translated into a quality of life and
collaboration on the local level".