RUSSIAN AND GEORGIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES DURING THE YEARS OF THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF METROPOLITAN NIKODIM (ROTOV) IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL CHURCH RELATIONS

Sergey Leonidovich Zvonarev

Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies named after Saints Equal to the Apostles Cyril and Methodius, Moscow, Russia

Email: zvonariov@rambler.ru

ORCID: 0009-0008-6785-4090

Issue: № 3 (27), 2024

Pages: 63–70

Annotation

This article aims to familiarize the reader with the specifics of interaction between the Russian and Georgian Orthodox Churches in 1960–1972 — the time of chairmanship of Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) in the Department for External Church Relations. A brief study was prepared based on church and state archival sources, official church periodicals. The author of the article traces the outline of fraternal relations between the two Churches, manifested both in mutual visits and correspondence, and in the versatile assistance to the Georgian Church from the Moscow Patriarchate. The study paid attention to the influence of the state factor on the agenda of bilateral church cooperation, which affected the sphere of inter- Orthodox and inter- Christian relations, and peacekeeping ministry.

Keywords

inter-O rthodox relations, Georgian Orthodox Church, Catholicos-P atriarch of All Georgia Ephraim II, Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov), Department of External Church Relations.

For citation

Zvonarev S., archpr. Russian and Georgian Orthodox Churches during the years of the chairmanship of Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) in the Department of External Church Relations // Ipatievsky Vestnik. 2024. № 3. С. 63–70 https://doi. org/10.24412/2309–5164–2024–3–63–70