Studia Humanitatis No. II (XX) / 2025
The spread of Christianity amongst the Georgians in the 1st–3rd centuries and the organisation of the first churches during that period
Rev. Prof. Dr. Aleksi Kshutashvili The organisation of the Georgian Christian Churches during the first three centuries, founded by the Holy Apostles in Cappadocia, Pontus and Iberia, is analysed in the light of the fundamental canonical principles: hierarchy, synodality, autocephaly, autonomy, ethnicity and ecumenicity. Sources such as the History of Kartli confirm the establishment of the hierarchy by divine right and the existence of distinct Georgian ecclesiastical traditions in the pre-Nicene era.