Irakli Jinjolava

In 2020, he spent several weeks in the United States to conduct research, visited two major orthodox theological institutions (St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology), and discussed with several professors (P.Bouteneff, M.Constas, J.Behr, A.Papanikolaou, B.Beck, V.Permiakov, J.Barnet, etc.) to develop his thesis and collected the required bibliography.

Irakli Jinjolava is a member of several international organizations, including Society of Biblical Literature, European Association on Biblical Studies, Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies Society for the Study of Scripture and others. Jinjolava has participated in many international conferences and symposia. In 2016, he actively participated in the preparation of Georgian-language articles and news of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, and also established the website. He has published several academic articles, writes blogs and is engaged in translation activities.

Irakli Jinjolava completed his undergraduate studies at Tbilisi Theological Seminary, Tbilisi, in 2011. He continued studying theology in Germany at the Catholic University of Eichstätt and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and later at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece. He received his MAS in Ecumenical Studies from the Bossey Ecumenical Institute in 2016 and was tonsured a monk in 2017. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Orthodox Theology at the LMU Munich. Since 2017 he is a research assistant at the Institute of Orthodox Theology and has served as a deacon in the Orthodox Church of Georgia since 2018.

Irakli Jinjolava (Georgian: ირაკლი ჯინჯოლავა ), (born in the 1990s in Zugdidi, western Georgia), is a Georgian theologian and orthodox deacon.