SARGIS KAKABADZE AND ISSUES OF THE HISTORY OF THE GEORGIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Abstract

Professor Sargis Kakabadze is one of the outstanding researchers of the medieval, new, and modern history of Georgia, who has passionately studied the political and economic history, together with urgent history problems of the Orthodox Church of Georgia: Apostolic work of Saint Nino, the chronology of the declaration of Christianity as the state religion, religious processes in Kartli and Egrisi in the V-VIII centuries, the history of Svetitskhovli Cathedral, the hierarchical attitude between Kartlian and Abkhazian Catholicoi. The Rein Chronology of the Catholicos-Patriarchs of Georgia. In the hardest period of statehood (1921), the scientist published a two-volume set of all church documents that had reached us with comments, including, “ The Court Of Justice”, the decisions of the church council of King Solomon I, the King of Imer’s (Imereti). The researcher considered illegal the order of cancelation of the autocephaly of the Georgian Church, made by the Russian Emperor Alexander I, at the beginning of the 19th century. He supported and played an active role in the struggle to restore the autocephaly of the Georgian Church. His contribution to the research of the history of the Church of Georgia is priceless.