Catholicos-Patriarch Joseph ( Georgian груз ათოლიკოს-პატრიარქი იოსები , Dzhandieri or Dzhandierishvili , Georgian ჯანდიერიშვილი ; d. 17 (28) October 1770 ) - Bishop of the Georgian Orthodox Church , Catholicos-Patriarch of Eastern Georgia.
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Canonized by the Georgian Church in the face of the saint . Memory - October 17 (30).
Biography
He worked in the David Gareja Monastery. For his wisdom and virtue, he was elevated to the rank of Bishop Rustavi.
In 1755, he was elected Catholicos-Patriarch instead of the displaced Anthony .
Catholicos-Patriarch Joseph, despite the height of his hierarchical position, remained an ascetic monk.
In 1764 he retired, retired to Akhmet (North-West Georgia).
I personally cultivated the vineyard and distributed most of the harvest to the poor. The climate in those parts is capricious, often drought and hail almost completely destroy the work of farmers, but during Joseph’s stay there his vineyard has never suffered from drought or hail.
Catholicos-Patriarch Joseph, having lived in holiness until a very old age, peacefully rested in 1770.