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After the death of his cousin, King Solomon I, he became a regent but prevented the rival princes David (the future king Solomon II) and George from being crowned. With the support of Katsia II Dadiani, prince of Mingrelia, he seized the throne and proclaimed himself king on May 4, 1784. Solomon II (სოლომონ II) 1772 Kutaisi
John the Evangelist and Peter by Albrecht Dürer (1526) John is always mentioned in the group of the first four apostles in the Gospels and in the Book of Acts, listed either second, [30] third [31] or fourth. [32] [33] John, along with his brother James and Peter, formed an informal triumvirate among the Twelve Apostles in the Gospels.
It became the state religion of Kartli (Iberia) in 319. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The conversion of Kartli to Christianity is credited to a Greek woman, St. Nino of Cappadocia . The Georgian Orthodox Church , originally part of the Church of Antioch , gained its autocephaly and developed its doctrinal specificity progressively between the 5th and 10th centuries.
Prester John (Latin: Presbyter Ioannes) was a mythical Christian patriarch, presbyter, and king. Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries told of a Nestorian patriarch and king who was said to rule over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient .
After saying this, the king promised again to the new God to erect "a pillar of the Cross". The king safely returned to the capital and was greeted by his "queen and the entire nation" of Kartli. He went with his army to see Nino. At the urging of Nino, the king laid the foundations of a church to commemorate his new faith, Christianity. [35]
the Son of God (John 1:34,49) and the Unigenitus Son of God and the Nicene Creed) the Lamb of God (John 1:29,36) Rabbi, meaning Teacher or Master (John 1:38,49) the Messiah, or the Christ ; Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph ; the King of Israel ; the "Son of Man" or "Son of Humanity"
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At times, he wept or impersonated Bible characters. By the time he left England for the colony of Georgia in December 1737, Whitefield had become a celebrity. [15] John Wesley left for Georgia in October 1735 to become a missionary for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.