{"id":268992,"date":"2020-01-20T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=268992"},"modified":"2020-01-20T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:55:28","slug":"patriarch-ilia-becomes-godfather-to-another-500-children-in-62nd-mass-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/patriarch-ilia-becomes-godfather-to-another-500-children-in-62nd-mass-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Ilia becomes Godfather to another 500+ children in 62nd Mass Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p3\" data-field=\" paragraph\"><strong>His Holiness Patriarch-Catholicos Ilia II of Georgia became the Godfather to another 521 children on Tuesday, January 14, reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interpressnews.ge\/ka\/article\/581001-patriarkis-natluli-kidev-521-bavshvi-gaxda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interpress News<\/a>, quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/orthochristian.com\/127118.html?fbclid=IwAR0uCQYiXI4LMYH1uaT2NNxoANTMjLiGM2jQzfA279UsmDTBUdwtrqZrbO4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OrthoChristian<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p4\" data-field=\" paragraph\">Since January 2008, His Holiness Catholics-Patriarch Ilia II has been holding several mass Baptism ceremonies in a year, in which he personally becomes Godfather to the third and later children of married Orthodox couples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p5\" data-field=\" paragraph\">The Baptisms are part of his initiative to improve the dire post-Soviet demographic situation in Georgia. Pat. Ilia is the most trusted and beloved man in the nation, and families are overjoyed to spiritually unite their children to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p6\" data-field=\" paragraph\">Tuesday\u2019s service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi was the 62nd such mass Baptism. The Patriarch now has 40,909 Godchildren.<\/p>\n<p data-enum=\"p6\" data-field=\" paragraph\">Photo source: Pravmir<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Holiness Patriarch-Catholicos Ilia II of Georgia became the Godfather to another 521 children on Tuesday, January 14, reports\u00a0Interpress News, quoted by OrthoChristian. Since January 2008, His Holiness Catholics-Patriarch Ilia II has been holding several mass Baptism ceremonies in a year, in which he personally becomes Godfather to the third and later children of married&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":268991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4888,22314,22313,22044,1988],"class_list":["post-268992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-baptism","tag-demographic","tag-godfather","tag-mass-baptism","tag-patriarch-ilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}