Peter Khmaladze

Priest Peter Khmaladze (1775-1856) was a priest and confessor of the faith at Baraleti, in Javakheti (Georgia). He has been numbered among the saints by the Orthodox Church of Georgia, according to some sources in 2015; he is commemorated on 1 January (old calendar), in the Georgian calendar.

Few details of his life survive. On a gravestone in the cemetery beside the church of the Mother of God at Baraleti, a village of Akhalkalaki, in Samtskhe-⁠Javakheti, an inscription mentions the Georgian priest Peter Khmaladze (1775-1856), recalling his labours in defending Christianity in the region that was under Ottoman rule until it passed under the control of the Russian Empire in 1829. The calendar of the Patriarchate of Georgia calls him "priest of Baraleti, confessor (Khmaladze, † 1856)" and commemorates him on 1 (14) January.