Georgian Orthodox Church

In the province are dozens of Georgian orthodox churches and various fortified buildings.

The village itself houses a late medieval Georgian Orthodox church of St. George.

Orthodoxy is currently represented in Azerbaijan by the Russian and Georgian Orthodox churches.

Built as an Armenian church in the 18th century, on the site of an older church, it now operates as a Georgian orthodox church.

Russian and Georgian Orthodox Churches include:

They are keeping their cultural heritage, speak Georgian language and belong to Georgian Orthodox Church.

There is St. Nino Georgian Orthodox Church in Paris.

A patron of Christian culture and a friend of the church, he has been canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church.

There are two Georgian Orthodox churches in the town itself - one dedicated to St. George and the other to St. Stephen.

Oni and its environs house a number of historical monuments, including the ruins of medieval forts and Georgian Orthodox churches.

Today, as rival militias maneuvered artillery pieces and armored personnel carriers past centuries-old Georgian Orthodox churches, life in this capital continues largely as normal.

The Georgian Orthodox Church has around 3,600,000 members within Georgia (no sources attempt to count members among the Georgian diaspora).

A reported 20,000 Georgian Orthodox church members protested, led by church priests, and a clash ensued in Pushkin Park, near Freedom Square.

Orthodox churches serving other non-Georgian ethnic groups, such as Russians and Greeks, are subordinate to the Georgian Orthodox Church.

In 1995 the bell tower was demolished and the church was reconsecrated by the Georgian Church and now functions as a Georgian Orthodox church.

Salome, along with Perozhavra, are Saints in the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and the Georgian Orthodox Church.

These noblemen were tortured to death for having revolted against the Persian domination of Kakheti (eastern Georgia) in 1659, and were eventually canonized by the Georgian Orthodox church.

After the 1992-1993 war in Abkhazia, ethnically Georgian priests had to flee Abkhazia and the Georgian Orthodox church effectively lost control of Abkhazian church affairs.

Despite reforms allowing minority churches to register themselves in 2005, the Georgian Orthodox church has a considerable monopoly in Georgia, whilst minority groups find it hard to even build places of worship.

His defense of the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox church when it was questioned by the Patriarch of Antioch made him one of the most venerated saints in Georgia.

St. Nino has become one of the most venerated saints of the Georgian Orthodox Church and her attribute, a grapevine cross, is a symbol of Georgian Christianity.

Following the overthrow of the Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917, Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church on March 25, 1917.

Many other Catholic churches were confiscated by the Georgian Orthodox Church after the fall of communism when the state gave all church property back to the Georgian Orthodox church.

In the late 1980s, three Orthodox churches claimed substantial memberships there: the Russian Orthodox Church, the Georgian Orthodox Church, and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (AOC).

The Abkhazian Orthodox Church operates outside the official Eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical hierarchy, as all Eastern Orthodox churches recognise Abkhazia as belonging to the jurisdiction of the Georgian Orthodox church.