Massive crowds gathered to pay their final respects to Georgia's longest-serving Patriarch Ilia II, as Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili, and other leaders delivered speeches at his funeral service in Tbilisi.

Georgia's State Security Service announced the arrest of a minor who admitted to making a false terrorist threat at Tbilisi’s Holy Trinity Cathedral during the funeral service for the late Patriarch Ilia II.