Aram I

Aram I (Արամ Ա; born Bedros Keshishian [Պետրոս Քեշիշեան] on 8 March 1947) has been the head of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia since 1995 and he resides in Antelias, Lebanon.

Inter-religious dialogue
In 2000, he indicated that he had no problem with the substance of Dominus Iesus, the document on relativism of the Holy Office of the Catholic Church, but faulted it for its unecumenical language.

Awards
Baselios MarThoma Didymos I, the Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan (Primate of the Malankara Orthodox Church), conferred the Order of St. Thomas, the most prestigious honor of the Church, on Aram I on February 27, 2010, at Kolenchery, India.


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