Catholicos Patriarch Elijah II (cargo. Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II; in the world Irakli Georgievich Gudushauri-Shiolashvili, cargo. Irakli Giorgi Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili; 4 january 1933, Ordzhonikidze, North Ossetian Autonomous District, RSFSR) - Bishop of the Georgian Orthodox Church; from 23 December 1977 year His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi - Primate of the Georgian Church. FROM 21 December 2010 year - His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and Metropolitan of Pitsunda and Tskhum-Abkhazeti

1 september 1967 year appointed Bishop of Sukhum and Abkhaz. IN 1969 year elevated to the rank of metropolitan.

After the death of Catholicos-Patriarch David V 9 November 1977 of the year, by the decision of the Holy Synod was appointed Patriarchal Locum Tenens. 23 December 1977 by the decision of the Holy Synod was appointed Patriarchal Locum Tenens; by the decision of the Holy Synod was appointed Patriarchal Locum Tenens 25 December 1977 of the year.

by the decision of the Holy Synod was appointed Patriarchal Locum Tenens. IN 1997 by the decision of the Holy Synod was appointed Patriarchal Locum Tenens.

by the decision of the Holy Synod was appointed Patriarchal Locum Tenens. by the decision of the Holy Synod was appointed Patriarchal Locum Tenens 1989 by the decision of the Holy Synod was appointed Patriarchal Locum Tenens. by the decision of the Holy Synod was appointed Patriarchal Locum Tenens, and, despite the outbreak of armed conflict, called the Abkhaz and Ossetians brothers[5]

FROM 1 on 4 Martha 2007 of the year at the invitation of the Russian Orthodox Church was on a visit to Russia, during which the presentation of the 13th volume of the "Orthodox Encyclopedia", which contains an extensive article about the Georgian Church

A source : https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Илия_II_(Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia)