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The current Constitution of Georgia recognizes the special role of the Georgian Orthodox Church in the country's history, but also stipulates the independence of the church from the state. Government relations are further defined and regulated by the Concordat of 2002. The Georgian Orthodox Church is the most trusted institution in Georgia.
Holy Protection Greek Orthodox Monastery, White Haven, Pennsylvania. Abbess Olympiada. Spiritual Father: Elder Ephraim of Arizona. St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Monastery, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. Abbess Melanie. Spiritual Father: Elder Ephraim of Arizona. The Living Spring Greek Orthodox Monastery, Dunlap, California. Abbess Markella.
He reorganized and refurbished the Iviron cloister, and made it into a vibrant center of Georgian Orthodox culture. At some point between 1052 and 1057, George left his fellow monk George of Oltisi in charge of the Iviron monastery, and set off to Antioch to appear before the Patriarch to defend his brethren, accused by a group of the Greek ...
St. Thomas Orthodox Church in Sioux City, Iowa is a parish of the Great Plains Deanery [1] of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America, [2] part of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, [3] [4] a constituent archdiocese of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East. [5]
There were Jews living in Sioux City as early as the 1860s, but a synagogue was not built in the city until 1884. [3] Adas Jeshurun was an Orthodox congregation. The Jewish community in Sioux City grew from 200 in 1890 to nearly 2,500 by World War I. [4] Sioux City was home to the second largest Jewish community in the state of Iowa at the time.
"The Glory of Iveria" by M. Sabinin remains one of the most revered Georgian Orthodox icons to this day.. Mikhail Pavlovich Sabinin (Russian: Михаил Павлович Сабинин, Georgian: მიხეილ პავლეს ძე საბინინი, monk Gobron, Georgian: გობრონ; 1845–1900) was a Russo-Georgian monk, historian of the Georgian Orthodox Church ...
John Tornike (Georgian: იოანე თორნიკე, romanized: ioane tornik'e; Greek: Ιωάννης Τορνίκιος), also known as Tornike Eristavi (Georgian: თორნიკე ერისთავი; died in 985) was a retired Georgian general and monk who came to be better known as a founder of the formerly Georgian Orthodox Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos in modern-day ...
The Church of Kish (Azerbaijani: Kiş kilsəsi; also known from different sources [2] [3] [4] as Church of Saint Elishe (Azerbaijani: Müqəddəs Yelisey kilsəsi,; [5] Latinised Saint Eliseus [1]) or Holy Mother of God Church, [5] is a Georgian Orthodox church, probably dating to the early 12th century, in the village of Kiş, approximately 5 km north of Shaki, Azerbaijan. [5]