A Week of Survey of Students’ Scholarly Achievements

On December 11, 12, 14 and 15, 2023, at the initiative of the Rectorate of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary and with the support of the Public Relations Office, a week of the survey of Students’ scientific achievements will be hosted at this school. The sessions of hearing of the students’ papers is dedicated to the 91st birthday of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi and Metropolitan of Bitchvinta and Tskhum-Apkhazeti, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II and the 41 st anniversary of his Enthronement.
We would like to inform you that on Monday, December 11, at 11 o'clock, the week of sessions will be opened.
On the first day, the students of the faculties of Academy and Seminary under the guidance of Professor Lela Khachidze, Head of the Department of Georgian Language and Literature, will present their works. The topic of the session is Athonian and Pre- Athonian Ecclesiastic Poetry.
1. Pre-Athonian Church Poetry - the moderator of the working group is Irakli Esebua, a second-year student of the Faculty of Academy. The Speakers are the 1st-year students of the Faculty of Seminary and the 2nd year students of the Faculty of Christian Psychology:
1. Kakhaber Abulidze – “Saint Romanoz Melodist and His Work”,
2. Guram Tsitsava – “The Earliest Book of the Year and Its Differentiation”,
3. Father Emanuel Kekelia – “Ioane Minchkhi - the Great Georgian Hymnographer of the 10th Century”,
4. Luka Khvedelidze – “Demetre-Damiane and His "You Are the Vine”,
5. Irine Chukhtiashvili – “The Merits of Saint Euthymius the Athonite (the supervisor - Doctor of Philology Ketevan Mamasakhlisi).

2. Mount Athos, the Theological and Educational Center - the moderator is Irakli Esebua, a second-year student of the Faculty of Academy. The Speakers are second- year students of the Faculty of Academy:
1. Zurab Gvelesiani – “The Commemoration Prayers Included in the Lives of SS Ioane and Euthymius the Athonites”,
2. Giorgi Torchinava – “Saint Ioane-Tornike According to the Writing of Saint Giorgi the Athonite and “The Acts of Iviron”,
3. Amiran Khvedelidze – “Saint Giorgi the Athonite’s Controversy with the Patriarch of Antioch”,
4. Giorgi Gvantseladze – “About the Typicon of Mount Athos”,
5. Irakli Esebua – “Hymns Dedicated to Euthymius the Athonite”, The presented papers are provided with visual materials by the first-year student of the Seminary Gabriel Mdinaradze.