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His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II (secular name: Irakli Gudushauri-Shiolashvili) (born January 4, 1932) is a famous ecclesiastic figure of Georgia, the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi.

He was born in 1932 in Vladikavkaz ( Northern Caucasus). In 1960 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy .

In 1963- 1969 he was Bishop of the Batumi- Shemokmedi EparchyIn the Roman Empire, an eparchy was one of the political subdivisions of the Empire. Some specifics are needed here. In Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and Eastern-rite Catholicism, an eparchy is the jurisdiction of a bishop, corresponding to what (in Western Georgia). In 1969 he was elevated to the rank of MetropolitanWhen the word metropolitan is used as an adjective, as in metropolitan bishop metropolitan France or metropolitan area it can mean: of or characteristic of a metropolis; see also metropolitan area of or belonging to the home territories of a country, as o.

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His Holiness and Beatitude received the highest Church awards from Patriarchs of the Orthodox Churches of AntiochThis is about one of the cities called Antioch in Asia Minor, now Turkey. See Antioch (disambiguation) for other places called Antioch. The city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes (modern Antakya is located in what is now Turkey. It was founded near the end of the, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Russia, Georgia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and almost all other Orthodox Churches.

Ilia II was conferred a Honorary Doctorate of Theology from: St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York (1986), the Academy of Sciences in Crete (1997) and the St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania (1998).