The heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church and its predecessors in the ancient Georgian Kingdom of Iberia (i.e. Kartli) have borne the title of Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia since 1010, except between 1811 and 1917, when the Church was subordinated to the Russian Orthodox Church as part of the Russian imperial policies.
The current style of the head of the Church is as follows:
Autocephalous status abolished and administration placed under the Russian Orthodox Church, 1811âÂÂ1917