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Professor Georgian Technical University, PhD in History, Head of the Department of Archaeology & Geor-gian History
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PhD student Georgian Technical University, PhD student
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Abstract
In the middle of the 6th century, the Assyrian holly fathers arrived in Georgia and began to work, at the end of the 6th and beginning of the 7th centuries they actively operated in Georgia. If we compare the state in which the Georgian Church was at the time of the arrival of the Assyrian Fathers with that in which it was at the end of their activity, then we can be sure that they fought against the Monophysite trend and defeated it. Indeed, in the 30-40s of the 6th century, as scientists say, Monophysitism raged among us, in the 70s-90s of the same century and at the beginning of the 7th century Georgia was completely Chalcedonian, which is the result of the merit of the Assyrian fathers, along with political reasons.
In what years the Assyrian fathers came to Georgia, what was the religious direction of the Georgian Church at that time, and what was the situation at the end of their activity - this is the subject of our discussion.
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