“A Great Honor and a Heavy Cross”—First Words of Patriarch Shio of Georgia

“A great honor and a heavy cross”—first words of Patriarch Shio of Georgia

“This is both a great honor and a heavy cross to bear,” His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Shio III of Georgia said yesterday after being elected to the primatial throne, receiving 22 of 39 episcopal votes.

Serbian Patriarch congratulates newly elected Patriarch Shio of Georgia | Orthodox Times (en)

Serbian Patriarch Porfirije sent a congratulatory message to Shio III following his election as the new head of the Georgian Orthodox Church. In his message addressed to the newly elected Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, the Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church expressed joy over the election of the new Georgian Patriarch and emphasized the spiritual significance of the event for the Orthodox world. “As participants in history, enlightened…

Shio III Enthroned as Patriarch of Georgian Orthodox Church - Civil Georgia

Shio III was enthroned as Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church on May 12, a day after his election, during a special church ceremony at Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, the ancient capital of Georgia, attended by senior clergy, ruling party officials, including Bidzina Ivanishvili, and the faithful. Succeeding the late Ilia II, who died aged 93 in March, Metropolitan Shio (Mujiri), as locum tenens, had temporarily led the church during…

Georgia Elects Shio As A New Patriarch: Axios!

EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis).  After the continuing bad news from Ukraine (where the situation goes from bad to worse for the globalists and the only remaining question is when Russia will occupy Odesa, Kharkiv, and Kiev), after the double slap in Bulgaria, where Patriarch Daniel’s Election was followed by the election of a pro-Russian Prime Minister Radev, today the Constantinople P{atriarchate and its globalist allies have to deal with a th…