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The redefinition of the relations between state and religion in post-Soviet Georgia is analyzed using legal texts, articles from the press, and interviews carried out between 2009 and 2011. Various ideas about church-state relations have clashed in Georgian politics from the period of “judicial secularism” till that of liberal secularism based on the separation of the two institutions. The shifting power relations that have presided over the arrangements made between church and state under President Shevardnadze (1992-2003) and since the Rose Revolution in 2003 are examined. The constitutional agreement signed in 2002 between the government and the Georgian Orthodox Church endows the latter, unlike other religious denominations, with symbolic, administrative, and financial prerogatives. However, there is a gap between institutional agreements and their practical implementation: the weak state, the strategic moves of certain players (political as well as religious), and ideology have all combined to ensure that vagueness lies at the heart of arrangements for managing relations with religion in Georgia.