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    PRESS RELEASE
    Catholicosate of Cilicia
    Communication and Information Department
    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#36

    THE PASSING OF ARCHBISHOP ZAREH AZNAVORIAN


    Antelias, Lebanon - His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia, members of
    the Brotherhood of Cilicia, announce with deepest sadness the passing of His
    Eminence Archbishop Zareh Aznavorian, on Friday, April 30, 2004, in
    Antelias. His Eminence was 57 years old.

    Archbishop Zareh faithfully served the Armenian Apostolic Church as an
    ordained celibate priest for 38 years, most of which was spent at the
    Catholicosate of the Holy See of Cilicia in Antelias, Lebanon, except for
    two years in Rome where he pursued higher education and three years as the
    Prelate of Cyprus.

    Archbishop Aznavorian served as professor of biblical studies in the
    Theological Seminary and the Hamazkaine Institute of Armenology. He has been
    the editor of "Klatsor" (yearbook of the Seminary), and "HASK" (official
    periodical of the Catholicosate), and conductor of "Shenorhali" choir of the
    Catholicosate.

    Archbishop Zareh was the Director of Christian Education Department of the
    Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia. He was the chairman of the Religious
    Council of the Catholicosate of Cilicia. He was a noted composer of both
    religious and secular music, a gifted scholar, a Biblical translator, and an
    author of textbooks and commentaries. He was considered to be one of the
    most noted Biblical scholars within the Armenian Church.

    The Extreme Unction will take place during the Divine Liturgy service at the
    Cathedral of St. Gregory the Illuminator in Antelias, on Monday, May 3.
    Interment will follow in the Mausoleum of the Holy See of Cilicia.

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    View printable pictures here:
    http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Pictures28.htm#3

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