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Holy Synod Shortlists Three Candidates to Succeed Patriarch Ilia II
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Three Georgian Orthodox Church hierarchs – Metropolitan Shio of Senaki and Chkhorotsku diocese (Patriarchal Locum Tenens), Metropolitan Iobi of Ruisi and Urbnisi diocese, and Metropolitan Grigol of Poti and Khobi Diocese – are the candidates to succeed late Patriarch Ilia II, Andria Jaghmaidze, Head of Georgian Patriarchate’s Public Relations Department, announced after the Holy Synod …