Challenges facing the ecumenical movement in the 21st century
New York, United States
H.H. Catholicos Aram I and Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia
WCC Moderator and General Secretary to Speak at Symposium
His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia and Moderator of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, will be visiting the United States in late October. In conjunction with the Moderator’s visit, a special symposium has been organized on 22 October 2005 at The Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Drive in New York under the theme, “Challenges Facing the Ecumenical Movement in the 21st Century. The seminar, which features the Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia as the keynote speaker, will be jointly sponsored by the Armenian Apostolic Church of America (See of Cilicia), the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, and the World Council of Churches.
Other speakers will include the Rev. Dr. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, General Secretary of the Reformed Church of America; Rev. Dr. Diane Kessler, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches; Bishop Thomas Hoyt, President of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; Rev. Dr. Robert Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches, Dr. Anthony Kireopoulos, Deputy General Secretary of the National Council of Churches, Rev. Deborah DeWinter, Program Executive for the United States, World Council of Churches; Fr. Leonid Kishkovsky, Moderator of the US Conference for the World Council Churches and Ecumenical Officer, Orthodox Church in America and a representative from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Archbishop Oshagan, Prelate for the Eastern United States of America of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America (See of Cilicia), will provide the welcome.
On Sunday, 23 October there will also be a Pontifical Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Holiness at St. Bartholomew’s Church at 1:30 p.m. followed by a banquet at the Pierre Hotel commemorating the 75th anniversary of the seminary in Antelias, Lebanon.
His Holiness was one of the founding members of the Middle East Council of Churches in 1974. As delegate of the World Council Churches, he attended the Assemblies in Nairobi, Vancouver, Canberra, and Harare. In 1975, he was elected to the Faith and Order Commission of the WCC and soon after as a member of the Central Committee. In 1991 at Canberra, he was elected Moderator of the WCC.
For more information on these events, please call the US Office of the World Council of Churches: 1-888-212-2920 or the Armenian Apostolic Church of America, Eastern Prelacy at: 212-689-7810.
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