BREAKING: Patriarch Ilia II, Leader of Georgian Orthodox Church, Dies at 93

Patriarch Ilia II, whose nearly five decades of rule have marked the growing influence of the Georgian Orthodox Church, has died at the age of 93, nearly a day after he was hospitalized amid deteriorating health, Metropolitan Shio Mujiri, Patriarchal locum tenens, announced late on March 17. He died in the Caucasus Medical Center, a …Источник: