The AnglicanāOriental Orthodox International Commission held a virtual meeting on October 27th, 2020, in lieu of its yearly gathering, due to the Coronavirus. V. Rev. Fr. Hrant Tahanian, Ecumenical Officer of the Catholicosate, and V. Rev. Fr. Zareh Sarkissian, director of the Christian Education department, participated in the meeting on behalf of the Catholicosate of…
The annual Conference of Secretaries of World Christian Communions held a virtual meeting on October 20th to the 22nd, 2020, in lieu of its yearly gathering, due to the Coronavirus. V. Rev. Fr. Hrant Tahanian, Ecumenical Officer of the Catholicosate, participated on behalf of the Catholicosate of Cilicia. Our churchās report was offered to the…
On Wednesday, October 28th, 2020, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I received a delegation from the Lebanese Forces (LF) party composed of members of the Lebanese Parliament and former ministers. Ā The aim of the visit was to express the solidarity of the LF party and its leader Samir Geagea to the Armenian people in the…
On Saturday, October 24th, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I received the Hamazkayin Central Committee headed by Dr. Meguerditch Meguerditchian. During the meeting, they discussed the activities of the Hamazkayin Cultural and Educational Society through its worldwide branches and the challenges they are facing, especially with relation to the existing situation due to the pandemic.…
On Monday, October 19th, 2020, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I ratified the election of HG Bishop Torkom Donoyan Ā as the prelate of the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Church in the USA in a Pontifical letter directed to the Diocesan National Representative Assembly and wished the newly elected prelate success in fulfilling the mission entrusted…
On Tuesday, October 20th, 2020, a national funeral service will be held for the chair of the National General Assembly of the Catholicosate of Cilicia and national benefactor, at the Catholicosate of Cilicia. Ā Due to the coronavirus, condolences will be received via phone on + 961 3 51 30 61 and + 971 50…
On Friday, October 16th, 2020, His Holiness Aram I received the Ambassador of the Armenian Republic to Lebanon HE Mr. Vahagn Atabekyan. The two discussed the situation in Artsakh amid the ongoing Azeri-Turkish aggression on the Republic of Artsakh, despite the established ceasefire, for the second time, as well as the position of the International…
On Friday, October 16th, 2020, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I honors the late Haroutioun Samuelian with the āKnight of Ciliciaā Insignia. Samuelian has served as the vice-governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon for many years and has been an active member of the Lebanese Armenian Community.
On Sunday, October 11th, 2020, on the occasion of the Feast of the Holy Translators, the opening of the 90th academic year of the Armenian Theological Seminary took place with a Divine Liturgy, which was presided by His Holiness Aram I and celebrated by the newly appointed Dean of the Seminary His Grace Bishop Meghrig…
His Holiness Catholicos Aram I, the National General Assembly of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, the Religious and the Lay Councils of the Assembly, and the Cilician brotherhood mourn the passing of the Chair of the National General Assembly, member of the Finance Body of the Assembly, and the former Chair of the Chuch Councils in…
On October 4th, 2020, during the Sunday Divine Liturgy celebrated at St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I offered prayers for Artsakh and the Armenian Army, who are fighting for their God-given right to live freely and independently on the frontlines of their homeland, and presided over the requiem service…
