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Domentius II of Georgia

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Domentius II (Georgian: დომენტი II, Domenti II) was a Georgian churchman and the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia who presided over the Georgian Orthodox Church from c. 1595 to 1610.[1] Like his predecessors, Domentius pushed for the efforts to aggrandize the church's land properties and restore the holdings that had earlier been lost to secular noble landlords.[2] Some historians such as Kalistrate Salia consider this Domentius to have been the same person as the earlier Catholicos Domentius I, who might have occupied his office twice, with a significant gap of nearly four decades.[3]

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  1. ^ "Leaders of Georgian Church". Patriarchate of Georgia. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  2. ^ Kacharava, E. (2012). "Доментий II [Domenti II]". In Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (ed.). Православная Энциклопедия, Том 15 [Orthodox Encyclopaedia, Volume 15] (in Russian). Moscow. pp. 600–601. Retrieved 18 January 2015.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Allen, W.E.D. (1970). Russian embassies to the Georgian kings (1589–1605). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 451. ISBN 0521010292.
Eastern Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia
1595–1610
Succeeded by