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 | | Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II was born Herakles Gudushauri Shiolashvili into a family of Georgian peasants on December 4, 1933, in Orjonikidze (Vladikavkas), which is located on the northern slopes of the Caucasus, in the Russian Federated Socialist Republic, not in Georgia proper. |
 | | At this meeting His Beatitude Ilia II made a speech which was dedicated to the significance of the Ecumenical movement, and the necessity of annihilating the stockpiles of weapons which threaten the existence of mankind. |
 | | In 1997 Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II was shown some of the anti-Ecumenical videos now circulating among the Orthodox, which contain explicit and revealing footage of the syncretistic events which have taken place at Ecumenical gatherings, and in which the Orthodox representatives have participated. |
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