Georgian Orthodox Church

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This church keeps the Julian reckoning for the fixed feasts as well as for Pascha, so the Nativity falls thirteen days after the civil date. The Orthodox churches that took up the revised calendar in the 1920s moved only the fixed feasts and still compute Pascha on the old reckoning.

One of the national Eastern Orthodox churches.

Rome's honour as a see is not in question here. What is rejected is universal jurisdiction over the whole church and the personal infallibility defined in 1870. Primacy among the Orthodox churches is held to be a primacy of honour, not of power.

The creed is recited here in its original form, that the Spirit proceeds from the Father. The Latin addition of and the Son is rejected both as an unauthorised alteration of a conciliar text and as bad theology, and it remains the principal doctrinal difference with Rome.

The Georgian church declined to attend, objecting to the draft texts on marriage and on relations with the other Christian bodies, and does not recognise the result.

This church prays for the dead and holds that the prayers help them, but it does not teach a distinct place of satisfactory punishment or the calculus of temporal penalty that the Western doctrine carries.

What is rejected is the Augustinian transmission of guilt, not the teaching that humanity begins damaged. This church speaks of ancestral sin: what passes from Adam is mortality and a nature inclined to sin, not personal culpability for another's act.

The gifts are held to be truly the body and blood of Christ. The change is confessed without committing the church to the scholastic account of substance and accident that the Latin term transubstantiation carries.

The Georgian church is headed by a catholicos patriarch.

The chant of the Georgian Orthodox Church, sung in Georgian across the liturgy and the hours, and the tradition the church defended against imperial pressure to replace it.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. The Jesus Prayer belongs to Orthodoxy, defended by Gregory Palamas against the charge that its practitioners claimed to see God's essence; monks and increasingly laypeople repeat it alone on a knotted woollen cord, and teachers warn against the breathing technique without direction.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.

Received in the Chalcedonian form: one person known in two natures, without confusion, change, division or separation. Receiving Chalcedon is what places this church in the Eastern Orthodox communion rather than the Oriental Orthodox one.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century.

Held in the terms the Council of Chalcedon set in 451, which this church receives as the fourth of the ecumenical councils.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Infants are baptised, chrismated and communicated in one rite, so initiation is complete before the child can speak.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Communion is given in both kinds together, the consecrated bread having been placed in the chalice and administered to each communicant from a spoon. The result is the same as intinction and the manner is not, and the practice here is ancient rather than adopted for convenience.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. The marriage service is the Crowning, and the priest is the minister of the sacrament rather than a witness to a contract the couple make, which is the opposite of the Roman analysis.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Tonsure is the rite of monastic profession itself, performed in degrees, and is not a preliminary to it.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. The Ninth Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and precedes Vespers, so that the liturgical day turns on it.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. The Byzantine rite as kept across the Eastern Orthodox churches.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Kept across the Eastern Orthodox churches.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century.

This church is autocephalous and governs itself. It accords the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople a primacy of honour as first among equals, which is not a jurisdiction over it.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. The First Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion, appended to Matins, and was never suppressed here as Prime was in the Roman rite.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. The Orthodox perform the same rites but have never treated seven as a fixed count, calling them mysteries; chrismation follows infant baptism at once and communion is given to infants from then on, where the West defers both.

The Georgian church has celebrated in Georgian since its early centuries. The Georgian alphabet and the oldest surviving Georgian literature are bound up with the church's own translation work.