28 February. From the 24th to the 26th of February, a consultation was held at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva to discuss the response of the Ecumenical movement in 2016 to the crisis in the Middle East. Very Rev Fr. Housig Mardirossian represented the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia and the Middle East Council of Churches…
25 February 2016. On Thursday morning representatives of the WCC and Norwegian Council of Churches met with His Holiness Aram I to discuss the problems in the Middle East, particularly those concerning Christians, and the problems concerning humanitarian assistance. Ā His Holiness discussed the different faces of the Syrian crisis and their impact on Christian…
23 February 2016. On Thursday evening the members of the Committee and Very Rev. Sipan Ketchedjian, their spiritual advisor, met with His Holiness Aram I in Antelias. The Association was established in 2010 by His Holiness Aram I as a space for university graduates to meet and plan how to play an active role in…
In the week of week of 15-21 February, 2016, His Holiness Aram I presided over the meeting of the Committee chaired by Mr Yervant Pamboukian. The members of the Committee who attended the meeting were, Messrs. Shahan Kandaharian, Guiro Manoyan, Khatchik Der Ghougassian and Khatchik Dedeyan, Chancellor of the Catholicosate. Professor Ashod Melkonian had sent…
18 February 2016. On Thursday morning Ambassador Ashod Kotcharian visited Catholicos Aram I to inform His Holiness Aram I that he had come to the end of his six years of diplomatic service and was returning to Armenia. His Holiness Aram I expressed his deep appreciation for the Ambassadorās services, and emphasized the importance…
18 February 2016. On Thursday morning, a high-level delegation from Iran, which is currently visiting Lebanon, met with His Holiness Aram I in Antelias. The delegation was accompanied by political advisors from the Iranian Embassy in Lebanon. Ā Discussions focussed on the situation in the Middle East, the Syrian conflict and issues related to the…
14 February 2016. A two-day conference to evaluate the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Commemorative events was held at the Catholicosate of Cilicia in Antelias. The participants included Mrs Heranoush Hagopian, Minister of Diaspora of Armenia, Mr Ashod Kocharian, Ambassador of Armenia to Lebanon, Diocesan Bishops, members of Genocide Commemoration committees of the region…
15 February 2016. In response to the invitation of the Roman Catholic Bishop, Diocese of Dubrovnik (Croatia), His Holiness Aram I nominated Archbishop Kegham Khatcherian to represent the Catholicosate of Cilicia at the 1700th anniversary of the Martyrdom of bishop Vlass, who is also the patron saint of the city. Ā Archbishop Kegham, the Cardinal…
14 Febrary 2016. On Saturday evening, His Holiness Aram I presided over the Service celebrating the eve of the feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. The St Gregory Illuminator Cathedral was filled with many young parents who, following the example of Mary and Joseph, came to the church to present their young…
7 February 2016. On Sunday, a group of Sunday School children and their parents attended the Holy Liturgy in Antelias and met with His Holiness Aram I. After blessing the children and talking to them, the Catholicos addressed the parents. His Holiness praised them for their diligence in sending their children to Sunday Schools and…
21-23 Jaunuary 2016. His Holiness Aram I nominated Mr Jirair Tanielian, Director of the Armenology Department of the Catholicosate of Cilicia to attend the meeting. The consultation was organized jointly by the Chair of the Armenian Studies Department, and the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, with the financial support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; it was…
5 February 2016. On Friday morning Ambassador Ashod Khocharian met with His Holiness Aram I in Antelias. They discussed Armenia-Diaspora relations, issues related to Armenians in Lebanon and future projects.
āRenunciation of Christianity would have been the end of āArmenian-ness,āā stated His Holiness Aram I Ā 4 February 2016. On Thursday morning His Holiness Aram I presided over the Holy Liturgy dedicated to St Vartanantz at St Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias; the celebrant was Archbishop Shahan Sarkissian, Primate of Peria (Syria). The feast…
2 February 2016. On Monday, His Holiness Aram I presided over the prayer service dedicated to the Ghevontiantz priests; Archbishop Yeprem Tabakian led the members of the brotherhood in the prayers. The collective term, Ghevontiantz, refers to the priest Ghevont and his companions who accompanied the soldiers during the historical battle of Vartanantz in 451,…
31 January 2016. On Sunday, the members of the Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Dialogue committee met in Cairo. During the meeting, Archbishop Nareg Alemezian, the Pontifical Representative in Cyprus, and Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of PCPCU, met privately and discussed relationships between the Catholic Church and the Catholicosate of Cilicia, the situation in Syria and Christian…
31 January 2016. Every year, on the Sunday preceding the last Sunday before the Great Lent, the clergy of the Catholicosate of Cilicia hold a special prayer service to remember the departed members of the brotherhood who had consecrated their lives to the service of the Church and the people. Ā This year as well,…
