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Catholicos-Patriarch has been the title of the heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1010. The first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia was Melkisedek I (1010-1030). In the 15th century the Georgian Orthodox Church was divided into the East and the West parts and accordingly they were ruled by the Catholicos-Patriarch of East Georgia and the Catholicos-Patriarch of West Georgia.

In 1801 the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti
Kartl-Kakheti

The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti was created in 1762 by the unification of two eastern Georgia kingdoms, which had existed independently since the disintegration of the united Georgian Kingdom in the 15th century....
 (Eastern Georgia) was occupied and annexed by the Tsarist Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
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Catholicos-Patriarch has been the title of the heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1010. The first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia was Melkisedek I (1010-1030). In the 15th century the Georgian Orthodox Church was divided into the East and the West parts and accordingly they were ruled by the Catholicos-Patriarch of East Georgia and the Catholicos-Patriarch of West Georgia.

In 1801 the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti
Kartl-Kakheti

The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti was created in 1762 by the unification of two eastern Georgia kingdoms, which had existed independently since the disintegration of the united Georgian Kingdom in the 15th century....
 (Eastern Georgia) was occupied and annexed by the Tsarist Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
. In 1811, the Autocephalous status (independence) of the Georgian Church was abolished by Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church ; or The Moscow Patriarchate , also known as the Orthodox Christian Church of Russia, is a body of Christianity who constitute an Autocephaly Eastern Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow, in full communion with the other Eastern Orthodox Churches....
 took over its administration.

In 1917 the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church was restored. The first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia since the restoration of autocephaly was Kirion III Sadzaglishvili (1917-1918).

List of Catholicoi-Patriarchs of All Georgia


Archbishops of Mtskheta, 335-467

  • Ioane I (335-363)
  • Iakobi (363-375)
  • Iobi (375-390)
  • Elia I (390-400)
  • Svimeon I (400-410)
  • Mose (410-425)
  • Iona (425-429)
  • Ieremia (429-433)
  • Grigol I (433-434)
  • Vasili I (434-436)
  • Glonakor (436-448)
  • Iovel I (448-452)
  • Mikael I (452-467)


Catholicoi of Iberia, 467-1010

  • Petre I (467-474)
  • Samoel I (474-502)
  • Gabriel I (502-510)
  • Tavfechag I (510-516)
  • Chirmagi-Chigirmane (516-523)
  • Saba I (523-532)
  • Evlavi (532-544)
  • Samoel II (544-553)
  • Makari (553-569)
  • Svimeon II (569-575)
  • Samoel III (575-582)
  • Samoel IV (582-591)
  • Bartlome (591-595)
  • Kirion I (595-610)
  • Ioane II (610-619)
  • Babila (619-629)
  • Tabor (629-634)
  • Samoel V (634-640)
  • Evnon (640-649)
  • Tavfechag II (649-664)
  • Evlale (664-668)
  • Iovel II (668-670)
  • Samoel VI (670-677)
  • Giorgi I (677-678)
  • Kirion II (678-683)
  • Izid-Bozidi (683-685)
  • Teodore I (Teodose) (685-689)
  • Petre (Svimeoni) II (689-720)
  • Talale (720-731)
  • Mamai (731-744)
  • Ioane III (744-760)
  • Grigol II (760-767)
  • Sarmeane (767-774)
  • Mikael II (774-780)
  • Samoel VII (780-790)
  • Kirile (791-802)
  • Grigol III (802-814)
  • Samoel VIII (814-826)
  • Giorgi II (826-838)
  • Gabriel II (838-850)
  • Ilarion I (850-860)
  • Arsen I (860-887)
  • Evsuki (887-900)
  • Klementos (900-914)
  • Basili II (914-930)
  • Mikael III (930-944)
  • Davit I (944-955)
  • Arseni II (955-980)
  • Oqropiri (Ioane I) (980-1001)
  • Svimeon III (1001)


Catholico
Catholicos

Catholicos is a title given to the head bishop of an autonomous region under the Patriarchate of Antioch in the ancient Syrian church. Catholicos in all respect is equallant to a Patriarch in powers, but, in precedence, defers to the Patriarch of Antioch....
-Patriarchs of the Georgian Orthodox Church, 1010-1811

  • Melkisedek I (1001-1030)
  • Okropir (Ioane) II (1031-1039)
    • Melkisedek I (1039-1045), restored
    • Okropir (Ioane) II (1045-1049), restored
  • Ekvtime I (1049-1055)
  • Giorgi III Taoeli (1055-1065)
  • Gabriel III Safareli (1065-1080)
  • Dimitri (1080-1090)
  • Basili III Karichisdze (1090-1100)
  • Ioane IV Safareli (1100-1142)
  • Svimeon IV Gulaberisdze (1142-1146)
  • Saba II (1146-1150)
  • Nikoloz I Gulaberize (1150-1178)
  • Mikel IV (1178-1186)
  • Teodore II (1186-1206)
  • Basili IV (1206-1208)
  • Ioane V (1208-1210)
  • Epiphane (1210-1220)
  • Ekvtime II (1220-1222)
  • Arseni III (1222-1225)
  • Giorgi IV (1225-1230)
  • Arseni IV Bulmaisisdze (1230-1240)
  • Nikoloz II (1240-1280)
  • Abraam I (1280-1310)
  • Ekvtime III (1310-1325)
  • Mikel V (1325-1330)
  • Basil V (1330-1350)
  • Doroteoz I (1350-1356)
  • Shio I (1356-1364)
  • Nikoloz III (1364-1380)
  • Giorgi V (1380-1399)
  • Elioz Gobirakhisdze (1399-1411)
  • Mikel VI (1411-1426)
  • Davit II (1426-1430)
  • Teodore III (1430-1435)
  • Davit III Gobeladze (1435-1439)
  • Shio II
    Patriarch Shio II of Georgia

    Shio II was Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 1440 to 1443. A close ally of the king Alexander I of Georgia, he was actively involved in the rehabilitation of the country after the devastating invasions by Timur....
     (1440-1443)
    • Davit III Gobeladze (1443-1459), restored
  • Markoz (1460-1466)
  • Davit IV (1466-1479)
  • Evagre (1480-1492)
  • Abraam II Abalaki (1492-1497)
  • Efrem I (1497-1500)
    • Evagre (1500-1503), restored
  • Doroteoz II (1503-1510)
  • Dionise (1510-1511)
    • Doroteoz II (1511-1516), restored
  • Basil VI (1517-1528)
  • Malakia (1528-1538)
  • Melkisedek II Bagrationi (1538-1541)
  • Germene (1541-1547)
  • Svimeon V (1547-1550)
  • Zebede I (1550-1557)
  • Domenti I (1557-1562)
  • Nikoloz IV Baratashvili
    Baratashvili

    Baratashvili is a Georgia noble family, appearing at the end of the 15th century as a continuation of the Kachibadze , which were possibly related to the Liparitids....
     (1562-1584)
  • Nikoloz V (1584-1591)
  • Doriteoz III (1592-1599)
  • Domenti II (1599-1603)
  • Zebede II (1603-1610)
  • Ioane VI Avalishvili
    Avalishvili

    Avalishvili was a Georgia noble family, which branched off the Tsitsishvili house in the 16th century. The initial appanage of the family was located in the historical area called Tori and now known as the Borjomi Gorge with its center at the village of Sadgeri....
     (1610-1613)
  • Kristefore I (1613-1622)
  • Zakaria Jorjadze
    Jorjadze

    Jorjadze was a Georgia noble family, considered by a genealogical tradition to have been of Caucasian Albanian origin, settled in the southern Georgian province of Samtskhe in 980 and removed to Kakheti in eastern Georgia in 1466....
     (1623-1630)
  • Evdemoz I Diasamidze
    Diasamidze

    Diasamidze was a Georgia noble family known from 1443.The family held a fiefdom in the northeastern corner of Samtskhe in southern Georgia, and later acquired the former possessions of the houses of Abuserisdze and Khursidze....
     (1630-1638)
  • Kristefore II Urdubegisdze Amilakhvari
    Amilakhvari

    The Amilkhvari was a noble house of Georgia which rose to prominence in the fifteenth century and held a large fiefdom in central Georgia until the Imperial Russian annexation of the country in 1801....
     (1638-1660)
  • Domenti II Kaikhosro Mukhran Batonisdze (1660-1675)
  • Nikoloz VI Magaladze (1675-1676)
  • Nikoloz VII Amilakhvari (1676-1687)
  • Ioan VII Diasamidze (1687-1691)
    • Nikoloz VII Amilakhvari (1691-1695), restored
    • Ioan VII Diasamidze (1696-1700), restored
  • Evdemoz II Diasamize (1700-1703)
  • Domenti III (1704-1725)
  • Besarion Orbeliani (1725-1737)
  • Kirile (1737-1739)
    • Domenti III (1739-1741), restored
  • Nikoloz VII Kherkheulidze
    Kherkheulidze

    Kherkheulidze was a Georgia noble family, originally in the southern province of Samtskhe where they held the locale called Kherkheti. At the end of the 12th century, one of the members of this house is said to have appointed to the Alania district of Nar where he married a local noblewoman and produced a new line of the family....
     (1742-1744)
  • Anton I Didi (1744-1755)
  • Ioseb Jandieri
    Jandieri

    Jandieri was a Georgia noble family known from the seventeenth century as grandees in the Kingdom of Kakheti.According to the genealogical treatise by Batonishvili Ioane Bagrationi , the family was elevated, in 1628, to the princely rank by the king Teimuraz I of Kakheti....
     (1755-1764)
    • Anton I Didi (1764-1788), restored
  • Anton II (1788-1811)


Exarchs of Georgia, 1811-1917

Autocephalous status abolished and administration placed under the Russian Orthodox Church, 1811-1917
  • Varlam Eristavi (1811-1817)
  • Teopilakte Rusanov (1817-1821)
  • Iona Vasilevsky (1821-1834)
  • Mose Bogdanov-Platonov (1832-1834)
  • Yevgeni Baganov (1834-1844)
  • Isidore Nikolsky (1844-1858)
  • Evsevi Ilinsky (1858-1877)
  • Ioanike Rudnev (1877-1882)
  • Pavel Lebedev (1882-1887)
  • Palladi Raev (1887-1892)
  • Vladimir Bogojavlensky (1892-1898)
  • Flabiane Gorodetsky (1898-1901)
  • Aleksey I. Opotsky (1901-1905)
  • Nikolay Nalimov (1905-1906)
  • Nikon Sofiisky (1906-1908)
  • Innokenty Beliaev (1909-1913)
  • Aleksey II. Molchanov (1913-1914)
  • Piterim Oknov (1914-1915)
  • Platon Rozhdestvensky (1915-1917)


Catholicoi-Patriarchs of All Georgia, since 1917

  • Kirion II Sadzaglishvili
    Patriarch Kyrion II of Georgia

    Kyrion II was a Georgia religious figure and historian who served as the first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia after the restoration of independence of the Georgian Orthodox Church from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1917 until his assassination in 1918....
     (1917-1918)
  • Leonide
    Patriarch Leonid of Georgia

    Leonid was a Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from 1918 to 1921.Born Longinoz Okropiridze in Georgia , then part of Imperial Russia, he graduated from the Theological Academy of Kiev in 1888....
     (1918-1921)
  • Ambrosi Khelaia
    Ambrosi

    Ambrose was a Georgia religious figure and scholar who served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from 1921 to 1927. Best known for his opposition to the Soviet Union, he was canonized, in 1995, by the Georgian Orthodox Church as Saint Ambrose the Confessor ....
     (1921-1927)
  • Kristefore III Tsitskishvili
    Patriarch Christophorus III of Georgia

    Christophorus III was a Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from 1927 until his death.He was born as Kristepore Tsitskishvili near the town of Kharagauli....
     (1927-1932)
  • Kalistrate Tsintsadze (1932-1952)
  • Melkisedek III Pkhaladze (1952-1960)
  • Efrem II Sidamonidze (1960-1972)
  • Davit V Devdariani (1972-1977)
  • Ilia II
    Ilia II

    Ilia II is the current Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia and the spiritual leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church. He is officially styled as His Holiness and Beatitude, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia....
     (1977-Present)


See also

  • Patriarchs
  • Catholicate of Abkhazia
    Catholicate of Abkhazia

    The Catholicate of Abkhazia was a subdivision of the Georgian Orthodox Church that existed as an independent entity in western Georgia from the 1470s to 1814....