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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


    HIS HOLINESS WILL PRESIDE OVER AN INTERNATIONAL

    ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE

    Antelias, Lebanon - His Holiness Aram I traveled to Geneva on June
    4 to preside over a meeting of the chancery of the World Council of
    Churches' (WCC) executive committee and to hold meetings with senior
    officials from the WCC.

    His Holiness will also deliver the opening remarks of the international
    ecumenical conference to be held in Geneva. It is the first time
    ever that WCC organizes such a conference. Around 200 senior
    representatives of all the world's religions will participate
    in the conference. Primate of the Diocese of Tehran, Archbishop
    Sebouh Sarkissian will participate in the meeting on behalf of the
    Catholicosate of Cilicia.

    His Holiness will both preside over the conference and be the keynote
    speaker. Rev.Fr. Masdots Tchobanian, the Christian Education officer
    of the Catholicosate of Cilicia accompanies His Holiness to Geneva. The
    delegation will return to Antelias in five days.

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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.cathcil.org/ The
    Cilician Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is
    located in Antelias, Lebanon.
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