Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia

The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (Georgian: სრულიად საქართველოს კათოლიკოს პატრიარქი, romanized: sruliad sakartvelos k'atolik'os p'at'riarki) is the Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi and the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church. The official full title is His Holiness and Beatitude, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia and the Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, Metropolitan Bishop of Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia. The incumbent Catholicos-Patriarch of the church is Patriarch Shio III since his election in 2026, who is also the Metropolitan Bishop of Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia. Catholicos-Patriarch has been the title of the heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1010, shortly after the unification of the Kingdom of Georgia. The first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia was Me...