Anton II of Georgia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anton II of Georgia

Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1762

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 21-Dec-1827

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Anton II the Great Martyr (Georgian: ????? II), born Prince Royal Teimuraz (???????? ???????????), (8 January 1762 or 1763 – 21 December 1827) was a member of the Georgian royal family and churchman.
A son of Heraclius II, the penultimate King of Kartli and Kakheti, he was the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 1788 to 1811. After the Russian Empire annexed Georgia in 1801, Anton resisted the encroachments from the Imperial officials in the Georgian church affairs.
Eventually, Anton was forced to leave Georgia for St.
Petersburg in 1810 and stripped of his office in 1811.
He was, thus, the last Georgian catholicos patriarch in the 19th century; the title was abolished by the Russian Empire and the autocephalous Georgian Orthodox Church was reduced to an exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Anton spent his last years in retirement in Nizhny Novgorod, where he died in 1827.
He was canonized by the Georgian church in 2011.



Description	Russian-Ukrainian painter and iconographer
Date of birth/death	24 July 1757 (in Julian calendar)	6 April 1825 (in Julian calendar)
Location of birth/death	Myrhorod	Saint Petersburg
Work location	Saint Petersburg (1788–1825)
Authority control	: Q262098 VIAF: 27882674 ISNI: 0000 0001 2100 202X ULAN: 500014461 LCCN: n80104210 WGA: BOROVIKOVSKY, Vladimir Lukich WorldCat