06Jun,2017
International Symposium – Catholic Heritage in Georgia
International symposium – Catholic Heritage in Georgia – will be held in SabaUni on June 6-8, 2017. The aim of the symposium is to analyze the importance of catholic heritage and Roman Catholic Church in formation of Georgian culture and perception. A visit in one of the regions of Georgia is planned during the conference. The presentations will be published in the form of collection. The initiators of the symposium are SabaUni and commission of cultural and ecclesiastical relations existing within Georgian Catholic Church. Language of conference: Georgian, English, Italian.
Program:
First Day
• 10:00 Welcome Speech
• 10:30 Father Gabriele Bragantini - Catholic Church in Georgia, Historic Review
• 11:00 Alberto Lo Prest - Dialogue as a Main Principle of International Relations in the Thinking of Pope Francis
11:30 Coffee Break
11:45 Bezhan Javakhia - The Changes in an Eastern Policy of Popes from the Beginning of the 13th Century and Georgia
• 12:15 Manana Javakhishvili - Catholic Missionaries and Education in the late Middle Ages Georgia
12:45 Nana Khazaradze - Felix Faber (1441-1502) about denoting terms “Georgian” and “Georgians”
• 13:15 Break (Classical Music)
• 14:00 Lunch
14:45 Murman Papashvili - Explanation and Analysis on a New Single Note of Cristoforo Castelis
• 15:15 Levan Begishvili - History of Catholic Church in Imerety Region
15:45 Maia Damenia - «Relatione della Mingrellia» of Gaetano Rasponi, the 17th Century Roman Catholic Missionary and its Importance in the framework of Georgian Culture
• 16:15 Coffee Break
16:30 Tamar Zhghenti - Linguistic Heritage of Catholic Missionaries in Georgia
• 17:00 Irakli Feradze - The Reconstruction of Women's History according to the Sources of Catholic Missionaries
Second Day
• 10:00 Welcome speech (Summary of the First Day of the Conference)
• 10:15 Merab Ghaghanidze - The Letters by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani
10:45 Guliko Mchedlidze - Unpublished Documents about Fr. Celestine
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11:15 Suliko Grigalashvili - Montauban Georgian Monastery
11:45 Coffee Break
12:00 Nodar Khitarishvili- Heritage of Vasil Tamarashvili
• 12:30 Keti Akhobadze - The Immortality Path of Petre Otskheli
13:00 Performance by Caritas’s Team
• 13:45 Lunch
14:30 Nugzar Papuashvili- Some Manuscripts from Kutaisi Catholic Church
15:00 Ekvtime Kochlamazashvili, Giorgi Chubinidze - Catholic Written Monuments in the Collections of the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Nikoloz Kozlovski - Polish Contribution to the Existence of Georgian Catholic Church
16:30 Prof. Karlo Vurak - Demetre Tbileli and Tana’s Martyrs
17:00 Visit Georgian National Center of Manuscripts (pre-notification is required)
Third Day
• 08:00 Departure to Akhaltsikhe Region
11:30 Nato Kruashvili - The Issue of Georgian Church Typicon in Meskhetian Enlighters’ Activities
12:45 Nugzar Bardavelidze - Catholic Church in Georgia - Chronicle of the Last Decades of the 20th Century (The Soviet Period)
13:00 Lunch
• 14:00 Visit Rabati Castle (pre-notification is required)
15:00 Visit Queen of Holy Rosary Church
16:00 Departure for Tbilisi