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.

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

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. Almsgiving is bound closely to the fasting seasons, what is not spent on food being given away.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Holy Unction is one of the seven mysteries and is administered to the living faithful in general, most publicly on Holy Wednesday, and not to the dying alone.

Theology proceeds by denial as well as by affirmation, and the denials operate on the affirmations rather than cancelling them. The order is inherited from the Cappadocians and from Pseudo-Dionysius.

The episcopate is held to run in unbroken succession from the apostles, and it is the bishop rather than the see that carries it. This is the ground on which this church recognises its own orders and those of the other Orthodox churches.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Baptism, chrismation and first communion are given together in one rite, so the baptismal life begins in infancy and is not deferred to an age of discretion.

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. Orthodoxy ordains married men to the priesthood but requires that bishops be monks, so celibacy shapes the episcopate rather than the parish; Mount Athos remains the tradition's monastic centre.

Kept on January 7 of the civil calendar, the Georgian Church retaining the Julian reckoning, and marked by the Alilo procession through the streets.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. The churching of a mother and the presentation of a child on the fortieth day is kept as a living rite here, not as a survival.

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 Orthodox confess standing beside the priest before an icon rather than through a grille, the priest understood as a witness rather than a judge, and confession is ordinarily expected before receiving communion.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

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. Prayers of exorcism are read over every candidate as a fixed part of the baptismal service, before the renunciation and the anointing.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Orthodox fasting means abstinence rather than hunger: no meat, dairy, eggs, fish with backbones, wine or oil on the strictest days, kept through Great Lent and three further fasting seasons and on most Wednesdays and Fridays, which is roughly half the year.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. The washing of feet is performed on Holy Thursday by a bishop, the Niptir, in the cathedral and in the great monasteries.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.

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.