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Giorgi-Ioane (Mkheidze) of Betania

Also known as George (John) of Georgia · Giorgi-Ioane the Confessor

Archimandrite and schema-monk of Betania Monastery in Georgia who confessed the faith through the Soviet persecution; reposed in 1960.

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Notes

Laboured at Betania with St Ioane (Maisuradze) (OS-0317) — 'one soul in two bodies'; glorified together by the Georgian Church in 2003. OCA also commemorates him alone on Jan 21.

Sources: Lives of the Georgian Saints; OCA Synaxarion (oca.org)