His Holiness Aram I to deliver opening prayer in US House
His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, will serve as the Guest Chaplain in the United States House of Representatives – offering the opening prayer before this Thursday’s session, Armradio reports.
His Holiness Aram I is the head of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia and was elected Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church in 1995. Ordained a priest in 1968, Aram Keshishian was named locum tenens of the diocese of Lebanon in 1978 and Primate in 1979, and was ordained as a bishop in 1980.
He received his PhD from Fordham University in New York and resides in Antelias, Lebanon. In September of 2022, His Holiness Aram I was elected President of the World Council of Churches, representing the Oriental Orthodox churches, during the Council’s assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The Morning Prayer will be televised live on C-SPAN and will be included in the Congressional Record. It is scheduled to start at approximately 9:00 am on Thursday, November 9th.
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