Ilia Jinjolava
Ilia Jinjolava (born as Irakli Jinjolava, ) is a Georgian theologian and Orthodox presbyter. Biography. Irakli Jinjolava completed his undergraduate studies at Tbilisi Theological Seminary, Tbilisi, in 2011. He continued studying theology in Germany at the Catholic University of Eichstätt and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and later at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece. He received his MAS in Ecumenical Studies from the Bossey Ecumenical Institute in 2016 and was tonsured a monk in 2017. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Orthodox Theology at the LMU Munich. Since 2017 he is a research  assistant at the Institute of Orthodox Theology and has served as a deacon in the Orthodox Church of Georgia since 2018. On Jule 12, 2020, he was ordained to the Holy Priesthood by His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, given the name Ilia and has been appointed as a spiritual father of the Georgian Orthodox community living in Turkey. The Ecumenical Patriarch bestowed the offikion of Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne upon the Fr. Ilia Jinjolava, who is in charge of the church and the Georgian community in Constantinople. Irakli Jinjolava is a member of several international organizations, including Society  of Biblical Literature, European Association on Biblical Studies, Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies Society for the Study of Scripture and others. Jinjolava has participated in many international conferences and symposia. In 2016, he actively participated in the preparation of Georgian-language articles and news of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, and also established the website. He has published several academic articles, writes blogs and is engaged in translation activities. In 2020, he spent several weeks in the United States to conduct research, visited two major orthodox theological institutions (St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological  Seminary and Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology), and discussed with several professors (P.Bouteneff, M.Constas, J.Behr, A.Papanikolaou, B.Beck, V.Permiakov, J.Barnet, etc.) to develop his thesis and collected the required bibliography.