On 25th November 2024, a delegation from the Lebanon-based Haigazian University visited our university. Rev. Dr. Paul Haidostian, President of the Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East (UAECNE) and President of Haigazian University, and Dr. Harout Selimian, Reformed Pastor, President of UAECNE in Syria were received by Dr. habil. Mózes Csoma, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. Dr. Zoltán J. Tóth, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Dr. Gábor Szalai, Head of the International Relations Office at the Károlyi-Csekonics Palace. Representing the Reformed Church in Hungary, Mr. Balázs Ódor, Head of the Ecumenical Office and Mr. András Gér, General Secretary of the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary took part in the meeting.
Haigazian University was founded in 1955 by the Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA) and UAECNE as a college of humanities for the training of teachers and pastors. Haigazian University is the only institution of higher education in the Armenian Diaspora and is named in memory of Armenag Haigazian, who was martyred in Harpurt prison in 1921. Thousands of its graduates have contributed to the educational, economic and intellectual life of Lebanon and the neighbouring countries.
The aim of the visit was to discuss the possibilities of scientific and research cooperation, joint student and faculty mobility between Haigazian University and the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, and the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Program was also presented.
