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  • The Georgian Patriarch’s Rebuke of St Tikhon

    The Georgian Patriarch’s Rebuke of St Tikhon

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    Matthew Namee
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    For centuries, the Orthodox Church in Georgia was autocephalous, with its own Patriarch (also known as “Catholicos”). In fact, for a long time there were actually two autocephalous Georgian Churches, one in the east and one in the west, each led by its own Catholicos-Patriarch. In 1783, the King of Kartli (the eastern kingdom) entered…