Aram I has left for Cairo to congratulate new Pope of the Coptic Church

YEREVAN, NOVERMBER 23, ARMENPRESS. His Holiness Catholicos Aram I of the Holy See of Cilicia has left for Cairo to congratulate personally the newly elected Pope of the Coptic Church Tawadros II. The Catholicos was accompanied by the Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Tehran Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian, Archbishop Nareg Alemezian (Inter Church Relations Department) and Archimandrite Mesrop Sargisyan. The Catholicosate of the Holy See of Cilicia informed "Armenpress" that Aram I greeted Tawadros II and emphasized the age-old fraternal relations of the Coptic and Armenian Churches and the necessity of a new impulse for the present close cooperation between the two churches.

Pope Tawadros II supported the suggestions of His Holiness and referred to the contributions and merits of Aram I. More than 50 archbishops and civilians partook in the solemn dinner of the Pope and His Holiness. At the course of the dinner Aram I discussed current situation in Egypt with the Patriarch. At the same day His Holiness Catholicos Aram I of the Holy See of Cilicia returned to Antelias.