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The Synod elected the three candidates for the succession of Ilja II, who led the Georgian Church since 1977. The most voted was the 57-year-old Metropolitan Šio, who for ten years was in fact the regent next to the elderly patriarch. But the passage is very delicate, because in a deeply polarized country and in the context of the clash between Moscow and Constantinople, the Georgian Orthodox Church is not choosing only one person or a developme…