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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 ...
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) .
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
The church is organized into 81 dioceses, of which 36, located in northern Greece and in the major islands in the north and northeast Aegean, are nominally and spiritually under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The Patriarchate retains certain privileges over and in them—for example, their bishops have to ...
Membership in the Georgian Orthodox Church has increased markedly since independence in 1991. The church maintains 4 theological seminaries, 2 academies, several schools, and 27 church dioceses; it has 700 priests, 250 monks, and 150 nuns. The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II, with his seat in Tbilisi, heads the Church.
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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 charter of the church was recognized by law (Law 4149/1961) by the Greek state in 1961, [1] some 50 years after the island's incorporation into Greece. In 1962, the Ecumenical Patriarchate elevated the island's bishoprics to metropolises , and in 1967, the Metropolitan of Crete was promoted to Archbishop.