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I am in need of some unbiased answers to a question I have. I know I could go to a OO or EO church site, but often the people on those boards are slanted to believe in what they have been taught or think is the correct view, while it may in fact not be.

My question is this: I thought I read somewhere that the Georgian church was oriental Orthodox at one time but then later accepted the rulings of Chalcedon and effectivly became Eastern Orthodox. Now, I cannot find any documentation to that statement anywhere....but I am almost sur it is true...can anyone back me up or tell me what is actually true?? It would be great to have published sources, but if not that is fine!

In His Name,
Stephen

See The Orthodox Church of Georgia [cnewa.org] .

Dear Friend,

For my money, the best "proof" of this is the fact that the Georgian Orthodox Church still venerates her saints canonized during the time it was Oriental Orthodox.

St David of Garesja, for instance, is honoured in the Georgian Orthodox calendar (and even in the universal Orthodox calendar).

But he was an Oriental Orthodox and roundly condemned by Chalcedonian theologians in his day as "that putrefaction from Georgia."

Although the Armenian Church has remained within the Oriental Orthodox fold, there were groups of Armenians who came into communion with Rome . . . and Constantinople.

Among the ethnic identities of the followers of St Paissy Velichkovsky in the 18th century, there were Chalcedonian Armenian Orthodox . . .

Alex