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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
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Around this time, Catholic missionaries became active in Georgia, setting up small Latin communities. A Latin Church diocese was established at Tbilisi in 1329, but this was allowed to lapse after the appointment of the fourteenth and last of its line of bishops in 1507, owing to few numbers of Catholics. Catholic missions residence in Mingrelia.
Until 1994, the annual publication Catholic Almanac used to list "Georgian" among the Byzantine Rites or autonomous particular Churches. This was abandoned in 1995. The largest community of Georgian Greek Catholics is in Gori. They are not organized as an Eastern Catholic sui juris church.
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) .
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 ...
The following is a current list of Catholic archdioceses ordered by continent and country (for the Latin Church) and by liturgical rite (for the Eastern Catholic Churches).
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 ...