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Kirion I
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 colonial policies. The current style of the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church is as follows: Archbishops of Mtskheta (326–467) * Ioane I (326–363) * Iakobi (363–375) *Iobi (375–390) *Elia I (390–400) *Svimeon I (400–410) *Mose (410–425) *Iona (425–429) *Ieremia (429–433) *Grigol I (433–434) *Vasili I (434–436) *Glonakor (436–448) *Iovel I (448–452) *Mikael I (452–467) Catholicoi of Iberia (467–1010) *Petre I (467–474) *Samoel I (474–502) *Gabriel I (502–510) *Tavfechag I (510–516) *Chirmagi–Chigirmane (516–523) *Saba I (523–532) *Evlavi (532–544) *Samoel II (544–553) *Makari (553–569) *Svimeon II (569 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgian Orthodox Church
The Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია, tr), commonly known as the Georgian Orthodox Church or the Orthodox Church of Georgia, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with the other churches of Eastern Orthodoxy. It is Georgia's dominant religious institution, and a majority of Georgian people are members. The Orthodox Church of Georgia is one of the oldest churches in the world. It asserts apostolic foundation, and that its historical roots can be traced to the early and late Christianization of Iberia and Colchis by Andrew the Apostle in the 1st century AD and by Saint Nino in the 4th century AD, respectively. As in similar autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, the church's highest governing body is the holy synod of bishops. The church is headed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil IV Of Georgia
Basil IV was Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, from 1206 to 1208, during the reign of Queen Tamar. His name is mentioned in manuscripts of Shio-Mgvime monastery dated to 1270.Roin Metreveli Roin Metreveli ( ka, როინ მეტრეველი) is a Georgian academician and historian. He was the first elected rector of the Tbilisi State University, after Petre Melikishvili and Ivane Javakhishvili Ivane Alexandres dze J ..., ''Kings and Patriarchs of Georgia'', Artanuji pub. Tbilisi 2010 References 13th-century people from Georgia (country) Catholicoses and Patriarchs of Georgia (country) Year of birth unknown {{Georgia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domentius III Of Georgia
Domentius III ( ka, დომენტი III, ''Domenti III''; died 22 September 1676) was a Georgian churchman and the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 1660 to 1676. He was a member of the princely Mukhrani branch of the Bagrationi dynasty, born as a younger son of Kaikhosro, Prince of Mukhrani. His regnal name is sometimes given as ''Domentius II''. Domentius was a son of Kaikhosro, Prince of Mukhrani, born sometime before 1629. In 1649, he was ordained as an archbishop of Samtavro. In 1660, he succeeded to the patriarchal throne on the death of Christophorus II with the approval of his reigning Muslim cousin, Vakhtang V (Shah Nawaz Khan). Domentius was a supporter of Vakhtang's policy aimed at enhancing central authority at the expense of self-minded nobility, but he energetically opposed the Iranian customs prevailing at the royal court of that time. Domentius' authority extended only to eastern Georgia, with the western Georgian church running its own affairs as a res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eudemus I Of Georgia
Eudemus I Diasamidze ( ka, ევდემოზ I დიასამიძე, ''Evdemoz I Diasamidze''; died 1642) was a Georgian churchman serving as Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 1632 until his death in 1642. His demise was occasioned by his involvement in a plot against the Muslim king of Kartli, Rostom-Khan, who had him arrested and put to death in prison. He was buried in the Anchiskhati church in Tbilisi. Eudemus was canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church as a "holy hieromartyr", his feast day marked on . Biography Eudemus (Evdemoz) came of the princely family of Diasamidze. Prior to his installment as the catholicos patriarch in 1632, he is known to have served as Archbishop of Bodbe from 1617 to 1619. Eudemus's patriarchal tenure coincided with a major upheaval in the Georgian lands; in eastern Georgia—Kartli and Kakheti—King Teimuraz I waged a decades-long struggle against the Iranian hegemony, while western Georgian territories had been politically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Of Georgia
Zachary, born Zakaria Jorjadze ( ka, ზაქარია ჯორჯაძე), was the Catholicos–Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church in the period 1623–1632. Before that Zachary was the bishop of Nekresi in 1613–1623 and was the bishop of the Georgian royal Bagrationi dynasty The Bagrationi dynasty (; ) is a royal dynasty which reigned in Georgia from the Middle Ages until the early 19th century, being among the oldest extant Christian ruling dynasties in the world. In modern usage, the name of the dynasty is sometim .... Bibliography *ლომინაძე ბ., ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ტომი 4, გვერდი 488, თბილისი, 1979 წ. Lominadze B., Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Volume 4, p488, Tbilisi, 1979 *თ, ჟორდანია, ქრონიკები, II, 1898. *ქართული სამართლის ზეგლები, ი.დოლი ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domentius II Of Georgia
Domentius II ( ka, დომენტი II, ''Domenti II'') was a Georgian churchman and the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia who presided over the Georgian Orthodox Church from 1595 to 1610. Like his predecessors, Domentius pushed for the efforts to aggrandize the church's land properties and restore the holdings that had earlier been lost to secular noble landlords. Some historians such as Kalistrate Salia Kalistrate Salia ( ka, კალისტრატე სალია) (1901–1986) was a Georgian émigré historian and philologist active in France. Salia was born on July 18, 1901, in Mingrelia, western Georgia. He studied at Zugdidi and K ... consider this Domentius to have been the same person as the earlier Catholicos Domentius I, who might have occupied his office twice, with a significant gap of nearly four decades. References , - Catholicoses and Patriarchs of Georgia (country) 16th-century people from Georgia (country) 17th-century people from G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas V Of Georgia
St. Nicholas V, also known as Nicholas VIII ( ka, ნიკოლოზ V/VIII, ''Nikoloz''; 1529 – 1591) was the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 28 February 1584 to 1591. He was born into the Bagrationi dynasty of Kakheti, a son of King Levan (r. 1520–1574). He was canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church as the Holy Father Nicholas the Catholicos of Georgia, his feast day marked on 18 February ( N.S.: 2 March). Biography Nicholas was born as a younger son of King Levan of Kakheti either of his first marriage to the Gurian princess Tinatin or his second marriage to a daughter of the shamkhal of Tarku. Nicholas was, thus, a younger brother or half-brother of Alexander II, who won the bloody competition for the throne of Kakheti after Levan's death in 1574. Nicholas was enthroned as the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia on 28 February 1584, succeeding on the death of Catholicos Nicholas IV. His tenure was during the turbulent period of Georgia's history; the once f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domentius I Of Georgia
Domentius I ( ka, დომენტი I, ''Domenti I'') was a Georgian churchman and the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia who presided over the Georgian Orthodox Church in the latter half of the 16th century. Surviving documents testify to Domentius' efforts to aggrandize the church's land properties and restore those holdings that had earlier been lost to secular noble landlords. According to the early-18th-century royal historian Prince Vakhushti, Domentius "was installed" as catholicos by King Simon I immediately after his accession to the throne of Kartli in eastern Georgia in 1556. Domentius' rule was limited to the eastern Georgian territories, with his see at Mtskheta; the west was under the jurisdiction of the breakaway Catholicate of Abkhazia. Even in the east, the Kingdom of Kakheti, run by a dynasty vying with their royal cousins in Kartli, tried to establish its own church. This attempt failed and Domentius was able to obtain pledges of loyalty from the Kakhetian bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melchizedek II Of Georgia
Melchizedek II ( ka, მელქისედეკ I, tr; died 1553) was the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia in the years of 1538–1541 or in the periods of 1528-1529, 1540-1545, and 1548-1552. He was a son of King Constantine II of Kartli Constantine II ( ka, კონსტანტინე II, tr) (c. 1447 – 1505), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a 23rd king and last of United Georgia from 1478 until his death. Early in the 1490s, he had to recognise the independence of h ... by his wife Tamar. Ancestry References {{authority control Catholicoses and Patriarchs of Georgia (country) 16th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops 16th-century people from Georgia (country) Bagrationi dynasty of the Kingdom of Kartli Georgian princes 1550 deaths Year of birth unknown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David IV, Catholicos-Patriarch Of Georgia
David IV or V ( ka, დავით IV/V, ''davit' IV/V'') was a 15th-century Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia known from the group of documents dated from 1447 to 1457. They testify to David's efforts to restore the patriarchal see of Mtskheta from the devastation of Timur's invasions earlier that century. The scholarly opinion is divided as to whether David III is the same catholicos as David II (III) and David III (IV), mentioned in the years 1426–1428 and 1435–1439, respectively, or not. Traditional lists of the Georgian prelates, such as those compiled by Michel Tamarati and Roin Metreveli, and accepted by the Georgian Orthodox Church, place three different catholicoi named David in the 15th century, while some historians, especially Cyril Toumanoff, see in these names one and the same person, a son of King Alexander I of Georgia Alexander I the Great (, ''Aleksandre I Didi'') (1386 – between August 26, 1445 and March 7, 1446), of the Bagrationi house, was king of Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shio II Of Georgia
Shio II ( ka, შიო II) was a 15th-century Georgian prelate mentioned as the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia in the documents dating from 1440 to 1443/47. Shio was a close associate of King Alexander I of Georgia, with whom he cooperated to restore the kingdom from the effects of the disastrous invasions by Timur earlier that century. Biography Shio's tenure is preceded and succeeded by those of the catholicos named David, whom traditional lists of the Georgian prelates, such as those compiled by Michel Tamarati and Roin Metreveli, and that accepted by the Georgian Orthodox Church, identify as David III (1435–1439) and David IV (1443/47–1457), respectively. Some historians, especially Cyril Toumanoff, see in these names one and the same person, David II, a son of King Alexander I. Toumanoff, further, conjectures that Shio was a ''locum tenens A locum, or locum tenens, is a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another; the term is especially used for physicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David III, Catholicos-Patriarch Of Georgia
David III or IV ( ka, დავით III/IV, ''davit' III/IV'') was a 15th-century Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia known from the group of documents dated from 1435 to 1439. They testify to David's efforts to restore the patriarchal see of Mtskheta from the devastation of Timur's invasions earlier that century. David's tenure coincided with the Council of Ferrara held from 1438 to 1439, at which the Georgian delegates rejected the union with the Roman Catholic Church. The scholarly opinion is divided as to whether David III is the same catholicos as David II (III) and David IV (V), mentioned in the years 1426–1428 and 1447–1457, respectively, or not. Traditional lists of the Georgian prelates, such as those compiled by Michel Tamarati and Roin Metreveli, and accepted by the Georgian Orthodox Church, place three different catholicoi named David in the 15th century, while some historians, especially Cyril Toumanoff, see in these names one and the same person, a son of King Alex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
