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Greek Orthodox Metropolises; Metropolis of Atlanta; Personnel; Archbishop Sevastianos (Skordallos) Cathedral Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Atlanta) Geography; Location Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Louisiana. Vital Statistics; Total Parishes 73 Website: atlmetropolis.org
These dioceses are the result of smaller ethnic jurisdictions joining the OCA at some point in its history, usually after having broken from other bodies. The Stavropegial Institutions are churches, monastic communities, and theological schools that are under the jurisdiction of the OCA's primate , Metropolitan Tikhon (Mollard) .
Far more significant in increasing the Greek presence in Georgia was the settlement there of Pontic Greeks and Eastern Anatolia Greeks.Large-scale Pontic Greek settlement in Georgia followed the Ottoman conquest of the Empire of Trebizond in 1461, when Greek refugees from the eastern Black Sea coastal districts, the Pontic Alps, and then Eastern Anatolia fled or migrated to neighbouring ...
Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and Metropolitan Bishop of Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazeti: Tbilisi Sameba Cathedral, Tbilisi Sioni Cathedral, Mtskheta Cathedral: 2 Tsalka Eparchy: Tsalka; 3 Alaverdi Eparchy: Telavi and Akhmeta: David (Makharadze), Metropolitan bishop of Alaverdi Alaverdi Cathedral ...
The first head bishop of the Georgia Church to carry the title of Patriarch was Melkisedek I (1010–1033). Since 1977, Ilia II (born in 1933) has served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia and Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi. Here is a list of the Catholicos-Patriarchs since the church restored autocephaly in 1917: [56] Kyrion II ...
According to the constitution, Greek Orthodoxy is the prevailing religion of Greece; this is reinforced by displays of the Greek flag and national emblem at church properties. Adherence to the Eastern Orthodox Church was established as a definitive hallmark of Greek ethnic identity in the first modern Greek constitution, the " Epidaurus Law ...
Emigrants from Georgia (country) to Greece (8 P) B. ... Pages in category "Greek people of Georgian descent" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Eudemus I of Georgia (died 1642), churchman serving as Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from 1632 until his death in 1642. Anton II of Georgia (1762 or 1763–1827), member of the Bagrationi dynasty and Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from (1788 to 1811) Dositheus of Tbilisi (died 1795), Archbishop of Tbilisi and a martyr