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HIS HOLINESS BESTOWED UPON MS. METTI DOUMANIAN THE “KNIGHT OF CILICIA” INSIGNIA

29 January 2019

On Saturday, January 26th, His Holiness Aram I decorated Dr. Krikor Doumanian's widow, Ms. Metti Doumanian, with the “Knight of Cilicia” Insignia. The philanthropist Dr. Doumanian has been a close friend of the Catholicosate, Birds’ Nest Orphanage, as well as Western Prelacy of the Armenian Church (USA).

 

Present at the event were Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate of the Western Prelacy, and Doumanian’s children: Dr. Greg Doumanian and Ms. Nancy Panossian Doumanian.  

 

His Holiness commended the devotion that Doumanian family has for the Armenian Church and the Armenian community, and expressed his wish that they would always continue serving and contributing to the mission of the Armenian Church.