Former Metropolitan Chkondidsky Petre (Tsaava) made a statement that “the Georgian Patriarch Ilia II has no right to make decisions alone”. In addition, the ex-hierarch – one of the few supporters of the Phanar in the Georgian Church – says that “the Patriarch must repent during the period of his rule,” writes apsny.ge.

“I called him to repentance for his unclean rule. He has something to repent of before the Georgian people, for decades an unclean person has been running the church and raised himself to be a saint during his lifetime. He created an idol out of himself and almost made the Georgian people idolaters, ”Tsaava said on “Rustavi 2” TV.

According to the information of the Georgian Orthodox Church, a meeting of the Holy Synod will take place on February 11. The “Association of Religious Studies of Georgia” claimed that they would discuss the removal of Ilya II and the appointment of the patriarchal locum tenens, Metropolitan Shio (Mujiri) of Senak and Chkhorotsku, which the Patriarchy called fantasies, as the new head of the GOC.

On October 31, 2019, Metropolitan of Chkondid Petre (Tsaava) was defrocked and sent to a monastery to atone for sins.