BEIRUT. – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan visited Antelias within his official visit to Lebanon and met the Armenian Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I.

Prior to the meeting the President and the First Lady Rita Sargsyan  accompanied by the Catholicos visited St. Gregory the Illuminator Church and the chapel eternalizing memory of the Armenian Genocide victims near the church, presidential press service informs.

Aram I awarded the President with the highest medal of the Catholicosate of Cilicia. And Sargsyan stated that the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia is not only a spiritual center but a powerful source of preserving Armenian identity.