Patriarchal Locum Tenens Speaks of Late Ilia II in First Epistle After His Death - Civil Georgia

Patriarchal Locum Tenens Speaks of Late Ilia II in First Epistle After His Death - Civil Georgia

Patriarchal Locum Tenens Shio (Mujiri) of the Georgian Orthodox Church spoke about the late Patriarch Ilia II and addressed unity in the first Easter epistle after Ilia II’s death, delivered late on April 11, on the eve of Orthodox Easter, at Sioni Cathedral in Tbilisi. “Christ has risen! Today, the world rejoices and celebrates! The Savior of the world, the beginning and source of life, our Redeemer, has risen from the dead and shattered the ga…