Georgian Patriarch

Georgian Patriarch denies controversial Karabakh comment

January 9, 2013 Featured News
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Karabakh – 9/1/2013 H H Ilia II, the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia and the spiritual leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church, has denied making a controversial comment on the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh during a recent meeting with a top Moslem cleric in the Caucasus. A Georgian Patriarchate spokesman said earlier this week that Azeri [...]

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Ilia II to baptize children

April 3, 2012 News

3/4/2012 Georgian Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II will have the 22nd mass baptism of children, News Georgia reports. Requests for part in the baptism ceremony are welcome at the Fund of the Georgian Patriarch from March 31 to April 2. The patriarch has baptized about 11,000 children. Ilia II expressed readiness to baptize the third and upcoming [...]

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Russians and Georgians brethren in religion – Georgian Patriarch

March 14, 2012 Featured News

14/3/2012 Georgian church leader congratulates Putin on election win. In a message to Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin, Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Ilia II, congratulated him with election victory and told him that Georgia would never tolerate “tearing away” Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “I think that your huge experience will contribute to strengthening of [...]

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Georgia’s Patriarch congratulates Vladimir Putin on his election as President

March 14, 2012 News

N.Kirtzkhalia 13/3/2012 Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II has congratulated Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on his victory in the presidential election. The Patriarchate of Georgia told Trend that Ilia II sent a congratulatory message to Putin. “Please accept my congratulations on your election as president. I think that your vast experience will contribute to peace [...]

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Georgian Patriarch promises to mediate for Armenian Churches in Tbilisi

January 14, 2012 Featured News

13/1/2012 Delegation of Armenian Community representatives inGeorgialed by Primate of the Georgian Diocese of theArmenian Apostolic Church, Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan visited Patriarch of all Georgians Ilya the Second on January 11. They congratulated New Year and Christmas of the Georgian religious leader. Primate of the Georgian Diocese of theArmenian Apostolic Church, Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan spoke [...]

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Georgian Patriarch seeks reburial of two former Georgian Tsars

November 25, 2011 Featured News

25/11/2011 TBILISI (RIA Novosti) The Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church asked for the reburial of two Georgian tsars, Vakhtang IV and Teimuraz II, in Georgia during his visit to Moscow as part of the celebrations of Russian Patriarch Kirill’s birthday. “We talked about the reburial of Georgian tsars Vakhtang IV and Teimuraz II who [...]

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Georgian Patriarch to leave for Moscow to celebrate Russian Orthodox Church’s Patriarch’s Anniversary

November 16, 2011 News

16/11/2011 The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II will leave for Moscow on Nov.18. As the Georgian Patriarchate told Trend, he will attend events in honour of the 65th anniversary of the Russian Patriarch Kirill in Moscow. The two heads of churches will hold an important service in Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow [...]

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Holy Etchmiadzin respects the age and experience of Georgian Patriarch

June 22, 2011 News

21/6/2011 Today a press conference was held at Holy Etchmiadzin to conclude the results of the visit of Armenian Catholicos Garegin the Second to Georgia and Javakhk. Father Arshak Bishop Khachatryan, the Chancellor (divanapet) at Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin said Catholicos of All Armenians didn’t manage to visit Norashen and St. Nshan Churches because [...]

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Armenian Church Slams Georgian Patriarch

June 22, 2011 Featured News
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Karine Simonian 21.06.2011 The Armenian Apostolic Church hit out at Georgia’s Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II on Tuesday for making what it called “inappropriate” references to its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II, just days after his visit to Georgia. Speaking in Tbilisi’s St. Trinity Cathedral on Sunday, Ilia attributed the failure of the two pontiffs to settle [...]

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Georgian Patriarch receives Sharon Stone

June 8, 2011 News

05.06.11 Sharon Stone visited the Georgian Patriarchy in Tbilisi on Sunday. Georgia`s Catholicos Patriarch Ilia II received the famous actress. The famous actress listened to the musical compositions by the Georgian patriarch and inspected icons. The patriarch also talked about the art with the actress. Later, Ilia II led Sharon Stone to the Winter Garden [...]

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Georgian Patriarch urges Dialogue

May 31, 2011 News

29/5/2011 In a sermon in the main Orthodox cathedral of Tbilisi Sunday, the Georgian Patriarch Iliya II urged the government and the opposition to end their confrontation and lend an ear to each other. He said only meaningful discussion, and not street battles, can bring forward solutions to burning problems. Back on Wednesday night, riot [...]

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Georgian Patriarch meets the Armenian Ambassador

March 26, 2011 News

23/3/2011 On March 23 Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia received the Armenian Ambassador Hrach Silvanyan, who is completing his mission in Georgia. Emphasizing the importance of friendship between the two Christian nations, the Georgian Patriarch hailed Hrach Silvanyan’s mission in Georgia and his contribution to the reinforcement of that friendship. During the meeting reference was [...]

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Russian Church Leader Ignores ‘Abkhazia’ in Georgian Patriarch’s Title

January 9, 2011 News

Civil Georgia, Tbilisi 7/1/2011 The Russian Patriarch Kirill skipped over “Abkhazia” from an official title of the Georgian Orthodox Church leader in a Christmas congratulation message. In an apparent move to emphasize that Abkhazia is part of the Georgian Orthodox Church’s canonical borders, its main decision-making body, the Holy Synod, decided on December 21 to [...]

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Spiritual leader invites Georgian Patriarch to Baku

December 23, 2010 News

20/12/2010 Sheikh-ul-Islam haji Allahshukur Pashazade held a meeting with Georgian Catholicos Patriarch Iliya the Second in Georgia. According to spokesperson for the Caucasus Muslims Department Rahima Dadasheva, on welcoming sheikh ul-islam, the patriarch stressed the importance of cooperation of the two religious figures, assessing the current visit as one more demonstration of historical ties between [...]

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Georgian Patriarch takes control over Abkhaz Diocese

December 23, 2010 News

Tbilisi, December 22, Interfax – The Georgian Patriarchate announced the transfer of control over the Abkhaz Diocese to the leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church. “The Holy Synod has examined a very important issue and made a historical decision: that on the basis of historical documents and the current situation, control over the Tskhum-Abkhaz Diocese [...]

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Azg: Georgia is afraid of Armenian spiritual leader’s visit to Javakhk

November 25, 2010 News

25/11/2010 “In all likelihood, the visit of Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II to Georgia will be cancelled. The reason is Armenian spiritual leader’s decision to visit Javakhk,” Azg daily writes. The visit of Catholicos to Georgia in mid November has been put off as Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II needed rehabilitation after treatment. [...]

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Georgian Patriarch in Diaspora comeback Plea

November 24, 2010 News

21/11/2010 In a sermon in the central Cathedral of Tbilisi on Sunday, the Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia the Second appealed to the Georgian Diaspora to return home. He said their old country needs them for advancing reconstruction and development plans. A total of 15 hundred thousand are estimated to have left Georgia during its civil [...]

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Everyone must know where their borders end – Georgian Patriarch

October 18, 2010 News

13/10/2010 Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia Illia the Second delivered speech during his visit to Parliament of Georgia. Chairperson of parliament Davit Bakradze received representatives of world orthodox churches. Illia the Second remembered the article published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, about Patriarch of Russia congratulating South Ossetia with 20th anniversary of independence. As Ilila the Second declared, [...]

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Georgian Patriarch ready to share church lands with Population

September 1, 2010 News

Tbilisi, August 30, Interfax – Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II has come up with the initiative of sharing the lands of the Orthodox Church with the population and building special communities on them. “The Georgian Church has several thousand hectares of land at its disposal. I am ready to present all this land to [...]

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Georgian Patriarch prompts Population Boom

February 27, 2009 News

Georgia has stemmed a long-term population decline thanks to an unpredecented offer by the head of its Orthodox Church to be godfather to thousands of children, the civil registry agency said Friday. The agency linked a sharp increase in births and marriages to improved living standards and the offer by the patriarch of the Georgian [...]

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Georgian Patriarch to undergo medical examination in Munich

February 8, 2009 News

Tbilisi, February 4, Interfax – The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II is going to Germany on Wednesday to undergo a medical examination, a source at the Georgian Patriarchate told Interfax.”Patriarch’s health condition is improving, currently it is stable and satisfactory, there is nothing to worry about, but after the consultation between Georgian and …

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