Tag: Patriarch Ilia

ANOTHER 1,000 CHILDREN BAPTIZED BY PATRIARCH ILIA OF GEORGIA

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- April 27, 2018

Photo: patriarchate.ge Photo: patriarchate.ge Photo: patriarchate.ge Orthochristian.com - 27/4/18 The Georgian people have again expressed their great love of and trust in His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia ... Read More

PATRIARCH ILIA CELEBRATES 50TH MASS BAPTISM

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- September 24, 2017

Photo: patriarchate.ge Orthochristian.com - 24/9/17 On September 21, the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, His Holiness Patriarch-Catholics Ilia II of Georgia celebrated ... Read More

PATRIARCH ILIA II BAPTIZES ANOTHER 1,173 CHILDREN

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 3, 2017

Pravoslavie.ru - 3/5/17 This past Sunday the holy Myrrhbearing Women were celebrated in all Orthodox churches throughout the world, and on the day of these ... Read More

GEORGIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CELEBRATES 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF RESTORATION OF AUTOCEPHALY

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- March 28, 2017

Photo: Sputnik Georgia Photo: Georgian Orthodox Church - Facebook Photo: Sputnik Georgia Pravoslavie.ru - 28/3/17 A festive service was celebrated on March 25 in Mtskheta’s ... Read More

GEORGIA PARLIAMENT LOOKS TO PROTECT RELIGIOUS SENSIBILITIES OF BELIEVERS

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- February 3, 2017

Photo: http://www.blagovest-info.ru/ Pravoslavie.ru - 3/2/17 The Georgian Parliament Committee for Human Rights adopted today a bill that, if approved, will make the insulting of religious ... Read More

PATRIARCH ILIA OF GEORGIA BECOMES GODFATHER TO 800 CHILDREN

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- January 22, 2017

Pravoslavie.ru - 22/1/17 The feast of Theophany is one of the twelve great feasts of the Orthodox liturgical year, celebrated with great fervency and pious ... Read More

HEALTH OF PATRIARCH ILIA IMPROVING AFTER GALL BLADDER INFECTION

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- January 3, 2017

Pravoslavie.ru - 3/1/17 Patriarch-Catholicos Ilia II of Tbilisi and All Georgia’s health is generally improving following a flu brought on by a gall bladder inflammation, ... Read More

PATRIARCH ILIA TO CELEBRATE 47TH MASS BAPTISM

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- December 22, 2016

Photo: REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili Pravoslavie.ru - 22/12/16 On December 24, His Holiness Patriarch-Catholicos Ilia II of Georgia will celebrate his forty-seventh mass baptism, reports Blagovest. With ... Read More

Patriarch Ilia II: “God is with us. These words are written in the Bible”

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- December 31, 2014

Pravoslavie.ru - December 2014 On the occasion of the 37th anniversary of his patriarchal enthronment, Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia together with the Holy Synod ... Read More

Patriarch Ilia of Georgia condemns explosion in Sakdrisi

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- December 15, 2014

15/12/14 Patriarchate of Georgia has released a special statement which reads the following: ‘’The fact of exploding the Sakdrisi gold field has caused our great ... Read More

Patriarch Ilia of Georgia: don’t evict people from houses because of the debt

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- December 11, 2014

Christiantelegraph - December 2014 The Catholicos – Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia asked the country’s commercial banks to not evict from their houses those people, ... Read More

Georgia celebrates its National Holiday—St. George’s (Giorgob) Day

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 27, 2014

On November 23 the Georgian Orthodox Church celebrated the St. George’s (Giorgob) Day. Great Martyr George the Victory-Bearer is venerated as patron-saint of the Georgian ... Read More

Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II: “May God grant that everybody should see in his or her neighbor a brother and not an enemy”

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 7, 2014

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

Georgian Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II – “I have great respect for Russia & I pray for Russia”

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- October 31, 2014

Moscow, October 29, Interfax - Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia has called for rapprochement between his country and Russia. “I have great respect for ... Read More

PATRIARCH ILIA II ASKS MEDIA TO STOP TRAUMATIZING PEOPLE WITH CRIME NEWS

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- October 3, 2014

10/3/14 At the Holy Trinity Cathedral Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia addressed his flock with a Sunday sermon, singling out the journalists and “the ... Read More

Patriarch Ilia II asking Turkish authorities to resume services at Georgian churches

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- September 21, 2014

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

Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II: “I will ask the Lord to give the people strength”

OCP- May 27, 2014

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

Georgia’s Antidiscrimination Law Opposed By Church Comes Into Effect

OCP- May 10, 2014

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

Georgian Church Leader: ‘Believers will not Accept’ Anti-Discrimination Law

OCP- May 9, 2014

May 2014 “How can illegality be legalized? Legalizing illegality is a huge sin and that’s exactly what I have spoken out about" - Patriarch Ilia ... Read More

Thousands of people prayed with heads of Orthodox Churches in Minsk

OCP- July 29, 2013

Minsk, July 29, Interfax - Some 20,000 people attended the liturgy served by the heads of the Orthodox Churches in a Minsk square on Monday. ... Read More

Patriarch of Georgia: Our church and people never cut ties with Russia

OCP- July 23, 2013

  Nadezhda Kevorkova - 23/7/13 Despite the South Ossetian war of 2008, close religious and human ties remain between Georgia and Russia, Patriarch of Georgia ... Read More