Giorgi Zviadadze, Tbilisi Theological Academy

XXV International Ecumenical Conference of Orthodox Spirituality
THE GIFT OF HOSPITALITY
Bose, 6–9 September 2017
in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches

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Hospitality of the Iviron Monastery at the crossroads of the orthodox spiritual traditions

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Giorgi Zviadadze, Tbilisi Theological Academy

Giorgi Zviadadze is the rector of the Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary and professor of Caucasus University. He was born in 1963 and studied at the Tbilisi Theological Academy and at the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature, where he completed a thesis on the “On virginity” of Gregory of Nyssa. Afterwards, he studied international relations at the University of Georgia. He is the representative of the Georgian Orthodox Church in the International Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and Judaism and member of the two Joint International Commissions for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Anglican Church and between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.


Abstract
Hospitality and the grace of acceptance of the poor with loving-kindness, done in the name of God, represent the foundation for the saving ministry of the Church of Christ since the Head of the Church, the Lord Himself, proclaimed to: “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11.28).
In various periods and circumstances of life, hospitality has been accompained by many miraculous phenomena, out of which I would distinguish two: the manifestation of the legacy left by the Georgian Athonite Fathers in the Monastery of Iviron on Mount Athos .