Giorgi Arjevanidze

26/05/2026

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13/05/2026

Portraits for history
Newly elected Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Shio Ill participates in his enthronement ceremony the Svetitskhoveli cathedral in the town of Mtskheta on May 12, 2026. Giorgi ARJEVANIDZE / AFP

12/05/2026

Newly elected Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Shio Ill participates in his enthronement ceremony the Svetitskhoveli cathedral in the town of Mtskheta on May 12, 2026. Giorgi ARJEVANIDZE / AFP

11/05/2026

The Georgian Orthodox Church has elected its 142nd Patriarch - Shio III, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi, Metropolitan of Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia.

21/04/2026

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19/04/2026

My picture in Guardian top pictures of the day 🔝/ 19 April

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17/04/2026

Pilgrims, including childless couples, with toy cradles participate in the Tsachkhuroba pilgrimage to the hill-sit Archangel monastery to pray God and ask for mercy and for a child, in the village of Tsachkhuri on April 16, 2026. Thousands joined the 3 km uphill monastery procession in an annual fertility pilgrimage, happening on Thursday of the week following Orthodox Easter. Giorgi ARJEVANIDZE / AFP

22/03/2026

Mourners follow the coffin of the late Georgia’s Orthodox Patriarch Ilia Il as clergy carry it into the Sioni Cathedral during his funeral ceremony in Tbilisi on March 22, 2026. Georgian Orthodox Church leader Ilia Il died on March 17, 2026 aged 93, the church said, after nearly half a century at the helm of one of the country’s most powerful institutions. Giorgi
ARJEVANIDZE / AFP

18/03/2026

Mourners follow the hearse transporting the coffin with the body of the late Georgia’s Orthodox Patriarch Ilia Il prior to a memorial service to be held at the Sameba Cathedral in Tbilisi on March 18, 2026.
Georgian Orthodox Church leader Ilia II died on March 17, 2026 aged 93, the church said, after nearly half a century at the helm of one of the country’s most powerful institutions. Giorgi ARJEVANIDZE /
AFP

15/03/2026

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