Giorgi Zviadadze, Rector of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary, has been the priest of the Church of Georgia since 1996; he was ordained by the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II. He served at Saint George of Lomisa Church in the Gldani District, Sioni Cathedral Temple of Tbilisi and, subsequently, with the blessing of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, he was appointed Dean of Kashveti Church of Saint George. In 2008, Archpriest Giorgi Zviadadze was ordained Protopresbyter and appointed as Dean of Tbilisi Sioni Cathedral Temple of the Dormition of the Mother of God.
For his devoted work in the bosom
of the Orthodox Church, Protopresbyter Giorgi Zviadadze has been
entitled to wear an embellished Cross and mitre. He has been
rewarded with the highest reward of the Orthodox Church of Georgia
– Order of Saint George; also, he was awarded the orders of the
Churches of Antioch, Jerusalem, Greece, Czech Republic and
Slovenia.
Protopresbyter Giorgi was Dean of
Tbilisi Theological Seminary, later the Dean of the Theological
Faculty of the Academy, Vice-Rector and since 2009 up to date, he
has been Rector of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary.
Protopresbyter Giorgi Zviadadze
is PhD in Philology and Theology. He has graduated from Ilia
Chavchavadze University of Foreign Languages, the Faculty of the
English Language, and the Highest Courses of Simultaneous
Interpreting where he qualified as an interpreter and translator,
has acquired the Master’s Degree of the School of Politics and
International Relationships of the University of Georgia.
Protopresbyter Giorgi Zviadadze
was Director of the Charity Fund working under the aegis of the
Patriarchate of Georgia “Lazare”, Executive Secretary of the
Charity Fund of the Patriarch of All Georgia “Revival and
Development of Spirituality, Science and Culture”. He conducted the
work of the Department of Theology of the Society of History of
Science founded under the aegis of the Academy of Sciences of
Georgia, with the blessing of His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II,
Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, he also was the member of the
educational-methodological Council of the History of Religion of
the Ministry of Education as the representative of the Patriarchate
of Georgia.
Up to the present, Protopresbyter
Giorgi Zviadadze has worked as the member of the Theological
Commission established at the Patriarchate of Georgia and as the
member of the Joint International Commission of Theological
Dialogue Between the Orthodox Church and the Anglican Church. He
participates in various international forums and assemblies held in
different countries and is the author of many theological and
scientific works.
Contact Information
Sioni Str. 13/40, Tbilisi
0105, Georgia
Tel: 0322989116
Email:
tsas@academia.edu.ge
Website:www.tsas.ge
