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in Constantinople, headed by Bishop Shio Batmanishvili, came to Georgia to further establish the Byzantine Rite there, and that by 1929 their faithful had grown to 8,000. Tragically, their mission came to an end with the arrests of Exarch Shio and his priests in 1928, their imprisonment at
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in 1937. Fr. Zugger cites a 1936 report that, "the Byzantine Catholic Church of Georgia had two communities, served by a bishop and four priests, with 8,000 believers", figures very similar to what elsewhere he gives as the 1929 situation.
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Fr. Zugger does not state that the Georgian Byzantine Catholics were ever formally established as an autonomous particular Church, and no mention of the erection of such a jurisdiction for Byzantine Georgian Catholics exists in the
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These congregations are long extinct, although some of their members were still alive in the late 1950s. The building that housed the male congregation, in
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from doing so, he paid particular attention to education in the Georgian language. In addition to his theological work, his congregation, schools, and
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In the brief period of Georgian independence between 1918 and 1921, some influential Georgian Orthodox expressed an interest in union with the
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who wished to become Catholics overwhelmingly joined the Armenian Catholic Diocese of Artvin, which had been set up in Russian
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defines these Churches as under a hierarchy of their own and recognized as autonomous by the supreme authority of the Church.
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with either 1861 or 1917 as the date of reunion with Rome. Reader Methodios Stadnik says that, in the 1930s, they had an
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used to list "Georgian" among the Byzantine Rites or autonomous particular Churches. This was abandoned in 1995.
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Article on Eastern Catholic communities by Ronald Roberson on the CNEWA web site
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They served and educated Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim Georgians living in the
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The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Union Empire from Lenin through Stalin
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Georgian Greek Catholic Divine Liturgy in Constantinople, late 19th century
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During the 19th century, when almost all Georgian Catholics were of the
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The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin through Stalin
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have also had a significant influence upon the Georgian language, its
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specifically for Georgian Greek Catholics had been established.
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did Catholics in Georgia feel able to adopt the Byzantine Rite.
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The largest community of Georgian Greek Catholics is in
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