Gaios Keratishvili
გაიოზი
Metropolitan of Urbnisi · 1945–2016
Born Bidzina Keratishvili (ბიძინა კერატიშვილი)
Life
- Born
- 24 February 1945
- Monastic tonsure
- 14 December 1971
- Ordained deacon
- 17 December 1971
- Ordained priest
- 19 December 1971
- Elected bishop
- 24 March 1972
- Consecrated bishop
- 26 March 1972
- Made metropolitan
- 4 June 1977
- Defrocked
- 1979
- Died
- 19 March 2016
Sees
Consecration
Consecrated 26 March 1972 by:
- Ephrem II Sidamonidze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1896–1972
- David VI Devdariani Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1903–1977
- Zinobi Majuga Metropolitan of Tetritskaro, 1896–1985
- Elias II Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, b. 1933
- Roman Petriashvili Metropolitan of Batumi, 1887–1979
Line of succession
Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 3 generations back to Ambrose Khelaya; earlier links are not yet in the data.
- Gaios Keratishvili Metropolitan of Urbnisi consecrated 26 March 1972
- Ephrem II Sidamonidze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1896–1972 consecrated 2 October 1927
- Christopher III Tsitskishvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1873–1932 consecrated 1921
- Ambrose Khelaya Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1861–1927 consecrated 15 October 1917
Bishops he consecrated 3
- 24 May 1975Hilarion Samkharadze Archbishop of Bodbe, 1937–2016
- 22 May 1976Gregory Tsertsvadze Metropolitan of Alaverdi, 1910–1991
- 19 February 1978Nicholas Makharadze Metropolitan of Tsilkani, 1932–2008
Sources
Also in: Wikidata
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