A 2021 Carnegie Endowment policy report on the Georgian Orthodox Church's political and financial position, documenting extensive state funding channels while never addressing ordinary member or parishioner giving.
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Reliability Tier1
Tier 1: a named-author policy report from a major international affairs think tank, published 23 July 2021. Documents in detail how the Georgian Orthodox Church is funded through state channels, "annual donations...from the Georgian government's central budget and from local municipalities, either in the form of specific amounts or through the transfer of land, buildings, and expensive off-road vehicles to church ownership," and is silent throughout on ordinary parishioner or member giving. Used as evidence that a genuine, credentialed study of this Church's finances exists and does not establish a personal member giving norm, distinguishing an honest gap from an unsearched one. Citation
AuthorArchil Gegeshidze and Mikheil Mirziashvili
PublisherCarnegie Endowment for International Peace
Publication Year2021
URLhttps://carnegieendowment.org/research/2021/07/the-orthodox-church-in-georgias-changing-society
Source TypeReport
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- Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
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