The 2003 draft Agreement between the Holy See and Georgia and future prospects for cooperation

• Authors: Dimitry Gegenava

Title variants

PL

Projekt umowy pomiędzy Stolicą Apostolska i Gruzją z 2003 roku i perspektywy ich przyszłej współpracy

Abstracts

PL

W 2002 r. Gruzja zawarła umowę konstytucyjną z Gruzińskim Apostolskim Autokefalicznym Kościołem Prawosławnym, ustanawiając tym samym nowy model prawnych relacji państwo–Kościół. Po tym wydarzeniu Gruzja i Stolica Apostolska przygotowały projekt umowy, która miała zostać przez nie podpisana we wrześniu 2003 r. Jej celem było ustanowienie prawnych gwarancji, które miały przysługiwać Kościołowi Katolickiemu i katolikom. W dniu 18 września do Gruzji przybył Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, watykański Sekretarz do spraw Relacji z Państwami, aby podpisać umowę. Jednak w ostatniej chwili prezydent Gruzji podjął decyzję o odstąpieniu od sfinalizowania tej procedury. Omawiany projekt nie jest znany opinii publicznej. Nawet badacze nie mieli dostępu do tego tekstu. Jego omówienie stanowi podstawowy cel niniejszego artykułu, w którym podejmuje się ponadto kwestię perspektyw przyszłej umowy pomiędzy Gruzją i Stolicą Apostolską.

EN

In 2002, Georgia and the Georgian Apostolic Autocephalic Orthodox Church signed the Constitutional Agreement, which established a new legal model of the state–church relationship. After this event, Georgia and the Holy See drafted a special agreement that was supposed to be signed in September 2003. It was intended to give legal guarantees to the Catholic Church and Catholic believers. Vatican Secretary for Relations with States Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran arrived in Georgia on 18 September to sign the agreement, but at the last minute, the president of Georgia decided not to finalise the process. This draft was not known to society, and even researchers did not have access to the text. This article overviews that document and tries to analyse the perspectives of a future agreement between Georgia and the Holy See.

Keywords

PL

Stolica Apostolska; Gruzja; Gruziński Kościół Prawosławny; konkordat; umowa konstytucyjna; projekt umowy

EN

Holy See; Georgia; Georgian Orthodox Church; constitutional agreement; concordat; draft agreement

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Studia z Prawa Wyznaniowego
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 26
• Pages: 133-146

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Dimitry Gegenava

• Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University

• https://orcid.org/0000000332693924

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/spw.16494

Biblioteka Nauki

23050704