The Urbnisi cathedral of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr (Georgian: ურბნისის წმიდა სტეფანე პირველმოწამის სახელობის საკათედრო ტაძარი, romanized:urbnisis ts'mida st'epane p'irvelmots'amis sakhelobis sak'atedro t'adzari), commonly known as the Sioni church of Urbnisi (ურბნისის სიონი, urbnisis sioni), is a Georgian Orthodox cathedral at the village of Urbnisi in Georgia's east-central Shida Kartli region. The church is a relatively large three-nave basilica, originally built in the 6th century and reconstructed in the 10th and 17th centuries. The church walls bear several inscriptions, some being among the oldest executed in the Georgian alphabet. The cathedral is inscribed on the list of Georgia's Immovable Cultural Monuments of National Significance.[1]
^"List of Immovable Cultural Monuments" (PDF) (in Georgian). National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
The Urbnisicathedral of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr (Georgian: ურბნისის წმიდა სტეფანე პირველმოწამის სახელობის საკათედრო ტაძარი, romanized: urbnisis ts'mida...
Urbnisi (Georgian: ურბნისი) is a village in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region, in the district of Kareli. Situated on a high left bank of the Mtkvari river...
Afterwards, during Pentecost, Archbishop Iob made him abbot of the UrbnisiCathedral Residency Monastery where he also served for a year. During his service...
The Svetitskhoveli Cathedral (Georgian: სვეტიცხოვლის საკათედრო ტაძარი, svet'icxovlis sak'atedro t'adzari; literally the Cathedral of the Living Pillar)...
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Nikortsminda Cathedral (Georgian: ნიკორწმინდის ტაძარი, romanized: nik'orts'mindis t'adzari) is a Georgian Orthodox Church, located in Nikortsminda, Racha...
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The Tsalenjikha Cathedral Church of the Transfiguration of Savior (Georgian: წალენჯიხის მაცხოვრის ფერისცვალების საკათედრო ტაძარი, romanized: ts'alenjikhis...
small town of Akhalkalaki and started preaching the Christian faith in Urbnisi, finally reaching Mtskheta (the capital of Iberia). The Iberian Kingdom...
council of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia in the cathedrals of Ruisi and Urbnisi. Indeed, for decades of devastation and war, the Orthodox Church...
interfere in church affairs. In 1103, he summoned the council of Ruisi-Urbnisi, which condemned Armenian Miaphysitism in stronger terms than ever before...
Georgian ecclesiastic synod convened at Ruisi and the neighboring cathedral of Urbnisi by King David IV. Leonti is credited by some historians with having...
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the Eastern Christian world." It is considered one of the four Great Cathedrals of the Georgian Orthodox world. The construction of the monastery at Oshki...
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Georgia (mtsignobart’-ukhutsesi) following the ecclesiastic Council of Ruisi-Urbnisi of 1103. Henceforth this office, for a time the greatest at the Georgian...
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