Many pilgrims from Armenia visit Lebanon and pay visits to various Lebanese and Lebanese Armenian pilgrimage sites, among many: the Catholicosate of Cilicia and the Armenian Genocide Memorial Chapel in Antelias, St Mary Cathedral and the Renaissance statute in Bikfaya, the Armenian Genocide Orphans’ “Aram Bezikian” museum and the Birds’ Nest Orphanage in Jbeil, Our…
On Saturday, March 23rd, 2019, His Holiness Aram I received Archimandrite Jack Yacoub, Representative of His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, and Vartkes Mahdessian, the representative of the Armenian Community in the Cyprus House of Representatives, respectively. The first meeting was an opportunity to talk about the centuries-old friendship between the Armenian and…
On Friday, March 22nd, 2019, His Holiness Aram I presided over the meeting of the newly formed Ecumenical Relations Committee of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, in Antelias. Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian, Prelate of Tehran, was the chair, and V. Rev. Fr. Hrant Tahanian, Director of the Ecumenical Relations Department, was the secretary of the meeting. …
