Police in Georgia have detained a high-profile priest who is suspected of plotting ... to poison Patriarch Ilia, head of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Irakli Shotadze, chief prosecutor in the ...

One priest, Archbishop Nikoloz Pachuashvili ... is because I uncovered the sin of sodomy and pederasty in the Georgian Orthodox Church.” “The people have a patriarch, possessed by the sin ...

Seven months with no resident priest The Georgian Orthodox Church's only two parishes allowed to exist in the country – St George's Church in Gakh and St Nino's Church in the nearby village of ...

Georgian church officials say -- much like Ilarion ... sacramental wine make it impossible to spread disease. Eastern Orthodox priests from Russia, Belarus, and Georgia also have argued that ...

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 ...