In the 1980s, the Georgian Orthodox Church was deeply involved in the process of seeking Christian unity, but its participation has waned in recent years in conjunction with a stronger assertion ...

According to the Georgian Diocese in North America, Zac Hanson was recently appointed as a deacon in the church. Hanson took on the name Deacon Mercurios Hanson and has been assigned to serve at ...

The Georgian Orthodox Church, which absented itself from the council, previously expressed a strict position that all mixed marriages were invalid. Representatives of other local churches ...

But the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest communion in Eastern Orthodoxy, has stayed on the old calendar, observing Christmas on Jan. 7 on the new calendar, as have Serbian, Georgian and some ...

Tbilisi, Georgia Pope Francis' efforts to improve relations with the Georgian Orthodox Church suffered a setback Saturday after the patriarchate decided at the last minute not to send an official ...

But after seven decades of repression under communist rule, the Georgian Orthodox Church faced a shortage of priests and higher-ranking clerics. Isaiah felt the pull and he took his ordination ...