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In 1801, the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) was occupied and annexed by the Russian Empire. On 18 July 1811, the autocephalous status of the Georgian Church was abolished by the Russian authorities, despite strong opposition in Georgia, and the Georgian Church was subjected to the synodical rule of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church and its predecessors in the ancient Georgian Kingdom of Iberia (i.e. Kartli) have borne the title of Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia since 1010, except between 1811 and 1917, when the Church was subordinated to the Russian Orthodox Church as part of the Russian imperial policies.
The most recent census in 2014 showed that most of the population in Georgia practiced Eastern Orthodox Christianity, primarily in the Georgian Orthodox Church, whose faithful make up 83.4% of the population. Around 2.9% of the population followed the Armenian Apostolic Church (Oriental Orthodoxy), almost all of which are ethnic Armenians. [1]
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 ...
After Georgia was annexed by the Russian Empire, the Russian Orthodox Church took over the Georgian church in 1811. The Georgian church regained its autocephaly only when Russian rule ended in 1917. The Soviet regime, which ruled Georgia from 1921, did not consider revitalization of the Georgian church an important goal, however. Soviet rule ...
Ambrosius of Georgia: 1927 16 March Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Hieroconfessor [83] Ammon of Egypt: 356 4 October / 7 December Desert Father, Venerable; a.k.a. Amun, Amoun, Ammonas and Ammonius the Hermit [84] [85] Ammon of Nitria: 401–430 10 January Desert Father, Venerable; a.k.a. Amtnonas, Ammonius and Ammonas of Egypt: Amos: c ...
Saint Nino (sometimes St. Nune or St. Ninny; Georgian: წმინდა ნინო, romanized: ts'minda nino; Armenian: Սուրբ Նունե, romanized: Surb Nune; Greek: Ἁγία Νίνα, romanized: Hagía Nína; c. 296 – c. 338 or 340) was a woman who preached Christianity in the territory of the Kingdom of Iberia, in what is modern-day Georgia.
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