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 ...

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 ...