



Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Kyrion II, who was elevated to that role upon the Georgian Orthodox Church declaring autocephaly in 1917. He'd returned from monastic exile to assume that role. He was murdered by an unknown assailant on June 27, 1918 and his murder remains a mystery to this day.





On this day in 1917, the Georgian Orthodox Church restored i ts autocephalous (self governing) sta tus within the Ortho dox family of Aposto lic churches.





This is likely a some what complicated story and I 'm not fa familiar with it but it seems that it had been autocephalous since 1010 , however, in 1811 it was put under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church , with their being a great deal of protest abo ut that in the Georgian community.



