Catholicosate of Cilicia
Antelias - Lebanon
In 2003, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I initiated a tradition of dedicating each year to a significant aspect of our collective lives. This year, the Catholicos has declared it the "Year of Human Resources Preparation." On Sunday, January 14th, 2024, during the Divine...
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS CATHOLICOS ARAM I OF THE GREAT HOUSE OF CILICIA To the Prelates, the clergy, the community authorities of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, and to the daughters and sons of our people, On the eve of 2024, with...
A NEW ALL-ARMENIAN STRATEGY Soon the year 2023 will be in the past and the New Year will rise in the horizon of our life. Indeed, the past year in the life of our nation was full of terrible hopelessness and profound disappointment. We are living in times full...
During his pontifical visit to Toronto, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I met with the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Lebanon in Toronto Mr. Krikor Postadjian. In attendance were the Prelate of Canada and the pontifical delegation....
On June 11th, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I celebrated the Divine Liturgy and delivered his message at St. Maty Church in Toronto and was assisted by HE Arch. Papken Tcharian and HG Bp. Torkom Donoyan. As June 10 marked the Feast of St. Gregory the...
DECLARATION OF HIS HOLINESS CATHOLICOS ARAM I HOLY SEE OF CILICIA To the Prelates, The Clergy, The Community Leaders of the Great House of Cilicia, and to the daughters and sons of our people, On the eve of 2022, from the Mother...
By V. Rev. Fr. Barouyr Shernezian Prior to my short trip to the States, I visited His Holiness in his office to receive his blessings. I was privileged and honored to be presented with his new book entitled “Turning to God”; a diary depicting the events...
TO LIVE WITH THE IMPERATIVE OF THE RESURRECTED LIFE In his epistle to the Colossians, the Apostle Paul reminds us that, “when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead”...
From the Monastery of Antelias of the Great House of Cilicia, we greet with pontifical blessing, warm Christian love and intense patriotism the World General Assembly, the Religious and Lay Councils of the Central Executive Council, the Prelates, the ecclesiastical...
His Holiness Aram I has proclaimed 2020 the “Year of Armenians with Special Needs.” The proclamation of the Catholicos will be read during Divine Liturgy at St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias, as well as in all the churches of our prelacies, on...
On Sunday, October 15, 2017, His Holiness Aram I presided over the Holy Liturgy in the Catholicosate of the Holy See of Cilicia. The Holy Liturgy was celebrated by the Dean of the Armenian Theological Seminary Very Rev. Boghos Tinkjian and was dedicated to the feast of...
His Holiness Aram I based his Easter sermon on an exhortation by the Catholicos theologian Nerses the Gracious, in which the theologian describes Jesus as “The Gate to Life.” His Holiness said that today people, by falling into a self-centred hedonistic way of...