(Premiere Christian News) Ilia II, the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, died on Tuesday after being hospitalised, said senior cleric Metropolitan Shio. He had been admitted for massive internal bleeding the previous evening. He was 93.
The spiritual leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church for just shy of half a century, Ilia II oversaw its transformation from an institution repressed under the Soviet Union into the most powerful non-state body in one of the world’s oldest Christian countries.
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