Zaza Vashakmadze CHAIRMAN OF THE STATE AGENCY FOR RELIGIOUS ISSUES

Place and date of birth Tbilisi, Georgia 11.05.1972

Marital Status Married

Contact information zvashakmadze@gov.ge

1978-1989  -  #67^th High School, Tbilisi

1989-1996 - Tbilisi Humanitarian Institute, Faculty of Law, Master of Laws

1996-1998  - Full Course of Georgian Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Academy in International Relations and Diplomacy

1996-2012 - Lawyer, Member of the Georgian Bar Association

2008-2010 – St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of Patriarchate of Georgia, faculty of    Theology, Master of Theology in Ecclesiastical Law and History

Currently a doctoral candidate in International Law

2009-2013  - Lectured at Akhaltsikhe, Gori and Tbilisi Universities

Since 2014 (April 30) - Chairman of the State Agency for Religious Issues  

 

Has received diplomas and certificates for participating in local and international conferences

Is the author of several books and monographs:

“1905 Reorganization Project of Georgian Church”

„Interim Management of the Georgian Church”

"Church-State Relations in Georgia 1990-2010"

“Modern Georgian Ecclesiastical Law“

Co-author of the publication "Freedom of Religion in Post-Soviet Countries"

Also the co-author and editor of the following publications:

Textbook - "Secularism and Religious Neutrality in Public Service"

Series of Publications – “Law and Religion” (III volumes)

"Freedom of Religion Under the Georgian and International Legislation”

Photo album „Religions in Georgia“

Photo album „Faith is an act of Freedom“

"OCCUPIED HERITAGE"

"FUNCTIONING CULT BUILDINGS IN TBILISI AS OF 2020"

 "FUNCTIONING CULT BUILDINGS IN GEORGIA AS OF 2023"

 "RELIGIOUS REPRESSIONS IN SOVIET GEORGIA" (According to data from the MIA archive)