Upcoming Patriarchal Baptisms in Tbilisi

As part of his ongoing initiative to encourage Georgians to have more children Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia of the Georgian Orthodox Church will be holding his fourteenth mass baptism of three hundred forty of these children in Tbilisi's Holy Trinity Cathedral on the feast of the Archangels (8/21 November). Since the beginning of the initiative Patriarch Ilia has baptized and chrismated some seven thousand children.