
Georgia
Georgian Patriarchate suspends priest critical of government and Church figures
Archimandrite Dorote Kurashvili frequently appears in the media and at anti-government protests.

Archimandrite Dorote Kurashvili frequently appears in the media and at anti-government protests.

The Ministry of Culture has found itself at odds with the Georgian Patriarchate over a report criticising the ministry’s restoration work on the Gelati Monastery in western Georgia. The report was issued by the Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation, a subagency of the Ministry of Culture. The centre described the restoration of the monastery as falling ‘far behind modern international standards’. It cited a November 2022 report made by t