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Ruisi-Urbnisi Council

The church council of 1103: reform of the church and consolidation of royal power.

1103

The Ruisi-Urbnisi church council (around 1103), convened by David IV, carried out a reform of the Georgian Church.

It removed unworthy prelates, tightened discipline and subordinated the church to royal power, uniting secular and spiritual governance.

The reform made the church a pillar of the centralised state, one of the foundations of the golden age.

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