Catholicos-Patriarch Anthony II ( cargo კათოლიკოს-პატრიარქი ანტონ II , in the world Teymuraz Iraklievich Bagrationi , cargo თეიმურაზ ერეკლეს ძე ბაგრატიონი ; January 8, 1762 , Tbilisi - December 21, 1827, Nizhny Novgorod Autonomous Church , before Katol -Patriarch of Eastern Georgia ( 1788 - 1811 ). Tsarevich, son of the king of Kartli-Kakheti, Irakli II Bagrationi , brother of the last king of Kartli-Kakheti, George XII .
| Catholicos-Patriarch Anthony II | ||
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| October 29, 1788 - June 21, 1811 | ||
| Church | Georgian Orthodox Church | |
| Predecessor | Anthony I | |
| Successor | Varlaam (Eristavi) (as Exarch of Georgia ) | |
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| 1784 - 1788 | ||
| Church | Georgian Orthodox Church | |
| Birth name | Teymuraz Iraklievich Bagrationi | |
| Original name at birth | cargo. თეიმურაზ ერეკლეს ძე ბაგრატიონი | |
| Birth | January 8 (19), 1762  Tbilisi , Kartli-Kakheti kingdom | |
| Death | December 21, 1827 ( January 2, 1828 ) (aged 65) Nizhny Novgorod , Russian Empire | |
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| Holy Order | 1784 | |
| Monasticism | 1782 | |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Canonization
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
He studied at the Tbilisi Theological Seminary , where in 1782 he received monastic tonsure and was ordained a hierodeacon .
In 1783 he visited Russia as part of the Georgian embassy.
In 1784, in the palace church of the Tsarskoye Selo Summer Palace, in the presence of the Russian Empress Catherine II , he was consecrated bishop of the Ninotsminda Georgian Church.
He was among the honorary persons accompanying the empress on this trip of Empress Catherine II on a trip to the territory of the former Crimean Khanate, annexed to Russia [1] .
In the same year he was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan of Alaverdi. According to the will of his father, he returned to Georgia.
On October 29, 1788 , at the death of Catholicos-Patriarch Anthony I , at the age of 25 he was elected his successor.
After the accession of the Kartli-Kakheti kingdom to Russia in 1801 , on January 30, 1811 , Emperor Alexander I approved the report of the Russian Holy Synod on church governance in Georgia, according to which autocephaly and the Patriarchal dignity of the Georgian Church were abolished, Metropolitan Mtskheta was appointed as the bishop over the Georgian clergy. and Kartalinsky Varlaam (Eristavi) with the assignment of the title of member of the Holy Synod and Exarch of Georgia to him. On June 21, 1811, the Holy Synod removed from St. Anthony the Catholicos-Patriarch.
Catholicos Anthony II was called to St. Petersburg for constant participation in the work of the Holy Synod and never returned to Georgia [2] .
Anthony retired to rest in Nizhny Novgorod . He was granted a green velvet mantle, the Order of St. St. Andrew , the carriage, the annual pension of 54 thousand rubles in bank notes and the staff of the first-class metropolitan.
He died on December 21, 1827. Buried in the Annunciation Monastery of Nizhny Novgorod ; in 1841 he was reburied in the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin . After the explosion of the cathedral by the Bolsheviks in 1929, its remains were scattered over Nizhny Novgorod . Unsuccessful attempts by Georgian MDA students to find out the relics of an ascetic are known .
Anthony II is named after a street in Tbilisi
Canonization
In July 2011, canonized by the Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church; memory - December 21, according to the Julian calendar . [3]
Notes
Links
- Anthony II article in the Orthodox Encyclopedia