Former subdivision of the Georgian Orthodox Church
The Catholicate of Abkhazia (Georgian: აფხაზეთის საკათალიკოსო, romanized:apkhazetis sak'atalik'oso) was a subdivision of the Georgian Orthodox Church that existed as an independent entity in western Georgia from the 1470s to 1814. It was headed by the Catholicos (later, Catholicos Patriarch), officially styled as the Catholicos Patriarch of Imereti, Odishi, Ponto-Abkhaz-Guria, Racha-Lechkhum-Svaneti, Ossetians, Dvals, and all of the North. The residence of the Catholicoi was at Bichvinta (now Pitsunda) in Abkhazia (hence, the name of the Catholicate), but was moved to the Gelati Monastery in Imereti in the late 16th century. In 1814, the office of the Catholicos of Abkhazia was abolished by the Russian Empire which would take control of the Georgian church until 1917.
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The CatholicateofAbkhazia (Georgian: აფხაზეთის საკათალიკოსო, romanized: apkhazetis sak'atalik'oso) was a subdivision of the Georgian Orthodox Church...
and that it was "re-establishing the CatholicateofAbkhazia disbanded in 1795". Vissarion Aplaa is the Primate of the Abkhazian Orthodox Church since...
dioceses ofAbkhazia were governed by the CatholicateofAbkhazia, subordinated to the Georgian Orthodox Church. The CatholicateofAbkhazia and the Georgian...
longer considered itself part of the Georgian Orthodox Church, and that it was re-establishing the CatholicateofAbkhazia, and that it would henceforth...
As a result of those devastations, many fell into disrepair or were abandoned. In the western half of Georgia, the CatholicateofAbkhazia was established...
Bichvinta also served as the seat of the Georgian Orthodox CatholicateofAbkhazia until the late 16th century when Abkhazia came under the Ottoman hegemony...
built at the end of the 10th century by King Bagrat III of Georgia. It served as the seat of the Georgian Orthodox CatholicateofAbkhazia until the late...
representatives of the Dadiani noble family of Georgia. In the CatholicateofAbkhazia, Bedia was the centre of a diocese and the seat of a bishop. In the...
Bishop of Patara (Lycia), 4th century AD Eudemos, the name of two Catholicoi of the CatholicateofAbkhazia (16th and 17th centuries) Eudemos I, of the Diasamidze...
Justinian I In the Georgian Orthodox CatholicateofAbkhazia, during the Middle Ages Dranda served as the seat of bishops. During the Turkish occupation...
Mtskheta; the west was under the jurisdiction of the breakaway CatholicateofAbkhazia. Even in the east, the Kingdom of Kakheti, run by a dynasty vying with their...
the CatholicateofAbkhazia disbanded in 1795. Jehovah's Witnesses are officially banned, but in the past some communities in some parts ofAbkhazia have...
painted during the reign of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and David IV of Georgia. In the CatholicateofAbkhazia, Mokvi was the seat of a bishop at least until...
(ნიკოლასძე). The Nikoladze family was also mentioned in the Catholicate list ofAbkhazia (Western Georgia). Niko Nikoladze Iakob Nikoladze Koka Nikoladze...
assisted him in detaching the western Georgian church—the CatholicateofAbkhazia—from the Patriarchate of Mtskheta, thereby rendering the Georgian church divided...
became Prince of Guria and made a donation to the Monastery of Achi to ask the CatholicateofAbkhazia to forgive his sins. Levan II of Mingrelia, opposed...
in Dranda. In the Georgian Orthodox CatholicateofAbkhazia, during the Middle Ages Dranda served as the seat of bishops. During the Turkish occupation...
the authority of the Catholicateof Mtskheta. The church language was changed from Greek to Georgian. During the 10th century, David III of Tao invaded...
Church of the East, and some Independent Catholic Churches are termed patriarchs (and in certain cases also popes – such as the Pope of Rome or Pope of Alexandria...
the abolition of the Church of Caucasian Albania, and the lowering of its denominational status to that of a Catholicate within the body of the Armenian...
the Ottoman conquest of southern Georgian territories, Khakhuli was part of Kartli Catholicate and after the Ottoman conquest of Tao, Khakhuli got isolated...
outside the empire, where separate "catholicates" developed in Mesopotamia and Armenia. The basic principles of the pentarchy theory, which, according...
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