ACTIVITIES
ELUDICATIVE LECTURES
HISTORY OF GEORGIAN CHURCH
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- Spreading Christianity in Georgia (activity of disciples).
- St. Nino, enlightener of Georgians and declaration of Christianity as a state religion.
- Obtaining of Georgian church autocephaly. Canonic bases of autocephaly.
- Georgian Church in 6th-10th cc.
- Relationship of the church and the state in 11th-18th cc.
- Canonic bases of church reformation of David Aghmashenebeli.
- Georgian Church in 13th-16th cc.
- Role of the church in struggle against foreign conquerors (11th-18th cc.).
- Georgian Church in the 18th c. activity of the Catholicos Anton I. Changes in church hierarchy.
- Georgian Church in the period of exarchs. (1811-1917).
- Georgian Church in 1917-1921. Restoration of Georgian church autocephaly.
- Georgian Church in the period of the Soviet Union.
- Georgian Church in the present period. Relationship with Orthodox world.
- Church relationship of Russia and Georgia from the ancient period till the present time.
- Sacred things of Georgian Church.
- Role of Georgian Church in the history of Georgian culture.
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- Georgians’ Religious-confessional groups – Georgian Catholics, Georgian Mussulmans, and Georgian Gregorians.
- Traditional and nontraditional religious groups in Georgia.
- Georgian Christian culture centers abroad.