Sergo Vardosanidze

Sergo Vardosanidze is a Georgian historian. He serves as the Professor and Rector of the Saint Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of Georgia.

Early life He graduated from Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani in Tbilisi State Pedagogical Institute. He completed a postgraduate course at Iv. Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology of Academy of Sciences of Georgia, specializing in History of Georgia. PhD (History), Professor.

Career He worked at K.D.Ushinski #1 experimental school as a history teacher and deputy headmaster. At Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Tbilisi Pedagogical University he was an associate professor, full professor of Georgian history, and chair and dean of Department of History. He was pro-rector and Georgian History Chair at Tbilisi Ecclesiastical Academy and Seminary.

Books Kyrion II, His Holiness and Beatitude, Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia. Orthodox Cypsela Publishers (Greece), 1993, 30 pages Georgian Church (in English), Tbilisi, 1999, 14 pages (in German), Tbilisi, 1999, 15 pages Textbook of Georgian History, co-authors – R.Meterveli, I.Antelava Methods of Teaching History (Course of lectures, co-authors – Z.Chimakadze, I.Tskitishvili) Leonid, His Holiness and Beatitude, Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia. Tbilisi, 2000, 45 pages Georgian Orthodox Apostolic Church in 1917–1952. Metsniereba publishing house, Tbilisi, 2000 (a monograph), 323 pages Secondary school of Village Zovreti, Zestaponi Region, Tbilisi, 2002, 31 pages 20 centuries of Christianity in Georgia (a guide-book in Georgian and English), Tbilisi, 2004, 18 pages Problems of Georgian National Consciousness, Tbilisi, 2004, 125 pages Ephraim II, Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia, Tbilisi, 2007, 148 pages Ilia II, His Holiness and Beatitude, Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia, Tbilisi, 2008, 486 pages Ambrose, His Holiness and Beatitude, Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia, Tbilisi, 2009, 210 pages Callistratus, His Holiness and Beatitude, Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia, Tbilisi, 2009, 208 pages Christophorus, His Holiness and Beatitude, Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia, Tbilisi, 2009, 200 pages Georgian Bishops (XX-XXI centuries), Tbilisi, 2010, 513 pages A History of the Orthodox Church of Georgia, 1811 to the Present (in English, Switzerland, 2006, co-author. (1917-2002)