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The population (including all ethnic groups) of Department Of State . Retrieved on May 24 , 2007 . According to the constitutions of Georgia and Abkhazia the adherents of all religions (as well as atheists) have equal rights before the law.http://dp.abhazia.com/konstitut.html Constitution of the Republic of Abkhazia, art. 12 CHRISTIANITY The earliest accounts of the introduction of Christianity into the present-day Abkhazia date from the first centuryhttp://www.patriarchate.ge/istoria/1e.htm HISTORY OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF GEORGIA and in 325 the bishop of , later functioning there as the Catholicosate Of Abkhazia . The orthodox church in Abkhazia is officially part of the Georgian Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Tskhum-Apkhazeti Eparchy) with Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II as its head. Witness through troubled times : a history of the Orthodox Church of Georgia, 1811 to the present, Abashidze, Zaza.The Eastern Orthodox churches: concise histories with chronological checklists of their primates, Burgess, Michael, London. http://www.bible.ca/orthodox-church-autocephalous-hierarchy-organization.htm After Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict , the Autocephalous church of Georgia lost the control and jurisdiction over its property in Abkhazia. However, all autocephalous churches of the Orthodox Faith , including Russian and Patriarchate Of Constantinople , recognise Abkhazia as part of the Georgian autocephalous church.A long walk to church: a contemporary history of Russian Orthodoxy, 2nd ed, Davis, Nathaniel Current head of orthodox church in Abkhazia is Archbishop Daniel of Tskhum-Apkhazeti Eparchy http://www.bible.ca/orthodox-church-autocephalous-hierarchy-organization.htm However, the Georgian Orthodox Church is unable to operate there and most of its clerics as well as the parish have been expelled during the Abkhazian war and in its aftermath. After the war in Abkhazia, the only remaining Orthodox priest of the Georgian Church, ethnic Abkhaz Vissarion (Apliaa) headed the local Orthodox community. In the following years, the recently consecrated clerics from the neighbouring Russian , 2006 . Retrieved on June 26 , 2007 The Georgian church officials complain that the Russian church interferes in Abkhazia by training and sending in priests loyal to Moscow. The Russian church officials published translations of the Gospels in Abkhazian , which drew protests from the Georgian Orthodox And Apostolic Church as a violation of Orthodox Church Canon Law , constituting a meddling in the internal affairs of another Orthodox church and annexation of Georgian Orthodox property in Abkhazia.http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=2810 The Russian Orthodox Church claims that the clerics of Maykop eparchy serve in Abkhazia only temporarily as the local Orthodox believers do not have contacts with the Georgian Orthodox Church. ISLAM , Abkhaz nobility was split along the religious lines, with Christians being generally pro-Russian, and Muslims siding with the Ottomans agains Russia. Russia's final victory in the area in the 1860s-70s and two Abkhaz revolts forced most of Muslim Abkhaz to emigrate to the Ottoman Empire as Muhajirs in the 1870s. A spiritual leader of the Abkhaz Muslims and . August 27 , 2007 . SEE ALSO REFERENCES |
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