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  • ANTELIAS: Bishop Nareg invited To lecture on the Catholicosate

    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.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/

    PO Box 70 317
    Antelias-Lebanon

    BISHOP NAREG INVITED TO LECTURE ON THE ARMENIAN CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA TO
    THE ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY IN SALZBURG

    Upon the invitation of the Catholic University in Salzburg, Bishop Nareg
    Alemezian, the Ecumenical Officer of the Catholicosate visited Salzburg
    19-21 May 2009. The programme began with a formal visit to the Archdiocese
    where he met with Archbishop Alois Kothgasser, S.D.B. The Archbishop had
    been in Lebanon during the civil war as the President of Salzburg's CARITAS
    Catholic organization, and was interested in the role of the Armenian
    Catholicosate in the Lebanese context and in Christian-Muslim relations. He
    was also interested in knowing more on Christian presence and witness in the
    Middle East. At the end of the meeting, in the name of His Holiness Aram I
    Bishop Nareg invited the Archbishop to visit Lebanon.

    After this formal visit Bishop Nareg lectured at the Catholic University and
    at the Foundation Pro Oriente. At the University he spoke of "The Armenian
    Orthodox Church Today," and at Pro Oriente he spoke of "The Participation of
    the Armenian Orthodox Church in the Ecumenical Movement". Both presentations
    were followed by discussions.

    The programme to Salzburg ended with a visit to Austria's oldest
    monasteries, a Benedictinine Abbey and Nunnery.

    On Ascension Sunday Bishop Nareg attended the Mass at the Salzburg Cathedral
    where Archbishop Alois Kothgasser, S.D.B. welcomed him formally and asked
    him to convey his greeting to His Holiness Aram I.

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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, http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/ The Cilician
    Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
    Antelias, Lebanon.
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