Mikheil Kavelashvili’s press service released the information that Georgian delegation will travel to the Vatican to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, scheduled for April 26. The delegation will be led by Kavelashvili who will be joined by other government and church representatives.
Among the officials accompanying Kavelashvili are Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Maka Botchorishvili, Head of Administration Ketevan Kvinikadze, and leading figures from the Georgian Orthodox Church.
The ecclesiastical delegation includes Metropolitan Gerasime, Chairman of the Patriarchate’s Department for External Relations and Administrator of the Zugdidi and Tsaishi Diocese, along with Protopresbyter Giorgi Zviadadze, Rector of the Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary.
