Georgia Prepares for Patriarch’s Funeral

Georgia will lay Patriarch Ilia II to rest on Sunday, March 22, with an all-day event in Tbilisi expected to draw a large crowd and feature major officials and religious leaders, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople. Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, who led the Georgian Orthodox Church for nearly five decades, died on March 17 …

By Civil.ge