Tag: Georgia
Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II: “May God grant that everybody should see in his or her neighbor a brother and not an enemy”
November 2014 His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia in connection with the feast-day of Venerable Archimandrite Gabriel (Urgibadze; 1929-1995, commemorated on November 2) ... Read More
Patriarch Ilia II asking Turkish authorities to resume services at Georgian churches
Pekrasheni September 2014 On Friday, September 12, Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia received at the Patriarchate in Tbilisi the head of the Presidency for ... Read More
Vatican’s Foreign Minister Visits Georgia
Civil Georgia - September 2014 Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See, met Georgian leadership in Tbilisi on September 15 and also ... Read More
Program created to save a unique Orthodox cave monastery in Georgia
September 2014 The Georgian government has resolved to start a project to save the cave monastery complex of Vardzia in the Samche-Javaheti region, reports Novosti-Gruzia. ... Read More
Georgian Patriarch Prays for Peace in the Donbass
4/9/14 Metropolitan Hilarion of Donetsk and Mariupol addressed the Patriarch of All Georgia, requesting prayers for internally displaced persons, refugees and victims of the attacks ... Read More
Georgia’s Orthodox Church signs agreement with Defense Ministry
Democracy & Freedom Watch - 19/8/14 TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Ministry of Defense on Sunday signed a memorandum with the country’s Orthodox Church. The agreement was signed at ... Read More
Relations between Georgian and Armenian churches
A sketch with an incident in the background By Georgy Kalatozishvili, Tbilisi. Exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza http://vestikavkaza.ru - July - August 2014 Recent events at the ... Read More
Statement from the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin on Recent Incident in the Georgian Diocese
July 2014 On July 19, according to a statement by the Armenian Church Diocese of Georgia, over 50 people, expressing disrespectful and blasphemous remarks, attacked the ... Read More
Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem Condemns the Assault on Armenian Church in Tbilisi
23/7/14 Based upon a press release from the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Holy Church in Georgia, on July 19, 2014, a premeditated hooligan irresponsible action was ... Read More
An Assault on the Armenian Orthodox Church in Tbilisi
Diocese of the Holy Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church in Georgia 22/7/14 On July 19, 2014, a pre-planned attack was perpetrated on the representatives of the ... Read More
Unique cave monastery complex of 12th-13th centuries in Georgia to be conserved
15/7/14 Vardzia is the cave monastery complex of the 12th-13th centuries in the valley of the Kura river, situated about 70 kilometers south of the ... Read More
The Most-Holy Robe of the Theotokos
July 2014 The Robe of the Theotokos - presently kept in a museum in Zugdidi, Georgia. The picture was given out as a blessing by ... Read More
Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II: “I will ask the Lord to give the people strength”
May 2014 On the day following Georgia’s celebration the Day of Family Strength and Honor for Parents by prayer processions and sprinkling of streets and ... Read More
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Cave presumably containing tomb of queen Tamar found
May 2014 Workers of a road brigade in Ingushetia have discovered an ancient cave after a landslide, which may contain either treasures of the capital ... Read More
The Myrrh-Bearing Hawaiian-Iveron Icon of the Mother of God is Ceremoniously Greeted in Georgia
May 2014 At the invitation of His Holiness, Catholicos-Patriarch Elias II of Georgia and with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America ... Read More
Georgia’s Antidiscrimination Law Opposed By Church Comes Into Effect
Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia May 2014- Radio Free Europe Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has signed an antidiscrimination bill into law. The law went into ... Read More
Georgia’s ancient capital Mtskheta becomes holy city
Tbilisi, April 7, Interfax - Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia has conferred the title of "holy city" on Georgia's ancient capital Mtskheta - a ... Read More
Patriarch: ‘Church Will Do Everything To Make Georgia EU Member’
7/3/14 (Civil.Ge) — Head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II, said during a meeting with visiting EU official that the Church “will do everything” ... Read More
Catholicos of All Armenians Received President of Georgia
March 2014 On February 28, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; welcomed Mr. Grigori Margvelashvili, President of Georgia; in the ... Read More
Relics of a great Georgian saint, elder Gabriel (Urgebadze), uncovered
26/2/14 On February 22, 2014, in the Georgian town of Mtskheta—the former capital of the early Georgian kingdom of Iberia—a significant event happened at the ... Read More
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia to visit Georgia
26/1/14 Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, Kirill plans to visit Georgia. Details of the Russian church’s visit to Georgia will be known in two weeks, Georgian ... Read More