Tip | Martyria

Studia Humanitatis No. II (XX) / 2025 The spread of Christianity amongst the Georgians in the 1st–3rd centuries and the organisation of the first churches during that period Rev. Prof. Dr. Aleksi Kshutashvili

The organisation of the Georgian Christian Churches during the first three centuries, founded by the Holy Apostles in Cappadocia, Pontus and Iberia, is analysed in the light of the fundamental canonical principles: hierarchy, synodality, autocephaly, autonomy, ethnicity and ecumenicity. Sources such as the History of Kartli confirm the establishment of the hierarchy by divine right and the existence of distinct Georgian ecclesiastical traditions in the pre-Nicene era.

The Words of the Fathers No. II (VI) / 2018 Sermon I. On Easter and idleness The Saint Grigorie Teologul

The First Homily of Saint Gregory the Theologian, delivered at Easter in the year 362 in the church at Nazianzus, marks the beginning of his priestly ministry in a context characterised by the Arian crisis and the tensions caused by the heterodox confession signed by his father, Gregory the Elder. The young Gregory’s return from seclusion represents both an act of obedience to his ordination and a mission to restore Nicene orthodoxy and reconcile the community.