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Georgian Byzantine-Rite Catholics
Georgian Byzantine Rite Catholics, or members of the Georgian Greek Catholic Church, are Catholics from the Georgian people who practice the Byzantine Rite in Old Georgian, which is also the liturgical language of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
During the 19th century, when almost all Georgian Catholics were of the Roman or Armenian Rites, many wished to attend the Byzantine Rite in Old Georgian, as is traditional in the Georgian Orthodox Church.
The House of Romanov, in addition to ordering the forced Russification of the Georgian people and of their Church, viewed and treated the Eastern Catholic Churches, with the grudging exception of the Armenian Catholic Church, as illegal and even treasonous organizations. Accordingly, Georgian people who wished to become Catholics overwhelmingly joined the Armenian Catholic Diocese of Artvin, which had been set up in Russian Transcaucasia.
In 1861, in Istanbul, former Mekhitarist priest Fr. Peter Kharischirashvili (Pétre Kharistshirashvili) founded the Servites of the Immaculate Conception, for both for male and female monastics.
They served and educated Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim Georgians living in the Ottoman Empire and at Montauban, France. Fr. Kharischirashvili spoke eight languages, but, at a time when the Georgian Orthodox Church was prevented by the Most Holy Synod from doing so, he paid particular attention to education in the Georgian language. In addition to his theological work, his congregation, schools, and curriculum have also had a significant influence upon the Georgian language, its grammar, literature, and history. Their pupils were also taught using excerpts from Georgian national poet Shota Rustaveli's The Knight in the Panther's Skin. The students were also taught Latin and French.
Only after Tsar Nicholas II grudgingly granted religious toleration during the Russian Revolution of 1905 did Catholics in Georgia feel able to adopt the Byzantine Rite.
In the brief period of Georgian independence between 1918 and 1921, some influential Georgian Orthodox expressed an interest in union with the Holy See, and an envoy was sent from Rome in 1919 to examine the situation. As a result of the onset of civil war and Soviet occupation, this came to nothing.
Some have treated Catholics within the Georgian Catholic Church who follow the Byzantine Rite as a separate particular Church with either 1861 or 1917 as the date of reunion with Rome. Reader Methodios Stadnik says that, in the 1930s, they had an Exarch, Fr. Shio Batmanishvili, and that an apostolic exarchate specifically for Georgian Greek Catholics had been established.
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Georgian Byzantine-Rite Catholics
Georgian Byzantine Rite Catholics, or members of the Georgian Greek Catholic Church, are Catholics from the Georgian people who practice the Byzantine Rite in Old Georgian, which is also the liturgical language of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
During the 19th century, when almost all Georgian Catholics were of the Roman or Armenian Rites, many wished to attend the Byzantine Rite in Old Georgian, as is traditional in the Georgian Orthodox Church.
The House of Romanov, in addition to ordering the forced Russification of the Georgian people and of their Church, viewed and treated the Eastern Catholic Churches, with the grudging exception of the Armenian Catholic Church, as illegal and even treasonous organizations. Accordingly, Georgian people who wished to become Catholics overwhelmingly joined the Armenian Catholic Diocese of Artvin, which had been set up in Russian Transcaucasia.
In 1861, in Istanbul, former Mekhitarist priest Fr. Peter Kharischirashvili (Pétre Kharistshirashvili) founded the Servites of the Immaculate Conception, for both for male and female monastics.
They served and educated Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim Georgians living in the Ottoman Empire and at Montauban, France. Fr. Kharischirashvili spoke eight languages, but, at a time when the Georgian Orthodox Church was prevented by the Most Holy Synod from doing so, he paid particular attention to education in the Georgian language. In addition to his theological work, his congregation, schools, and curriculum have also had a significant influence upon the Georgian language, its grammar, literature, and history. Their pupils were also taught using excerpts from Georgian national poet Shota Rustaveli's The Knight in the Panther's Skin. The students were also taught Latin and French.
Only after Tsar Nicholas II grudgingly granted religious toleration during the Russian Revolution of 1905 did Catholics in Georgia feel able to adopt the Byzantine Rite.
In the brief period of Georgian independence between 1918 and 1921, some influential Georgian Orthodox expressed an interest in union with the Holy See, and an envoy was sent from Rome in 1919 to examine the situation. As a result of the onset of civil war and Soviet occupation, this came to nothing.
Some have treated Catholics within the Georgian Catholic Church who follow the Byzantine Rite as a separate particular Church with either 1861 or 1917 as the date of reunion with Rome. Reader Methodios Stadnik says that, in the 1930s, they had an Exarch, Fr. Shio Batmanishvili, and that an apostolic exarchate specifically for Georgian Greek Catholics had been established.