Let's not think about this for a while, let's pay due respect to Ilia II, let the ninth day also pass. Perhaps, then we will prepare. Easter is coming, let's hold all this, and then we will start thinking about this, - Metropolitan of Akhalkalaki and Kumurdo, Bishop Nikoloz Pachuashvili, said when answering a journalist's question about how many candidates for the patriarch’s position there can be and what challenges await him.

According to him, "the members of the Synod have not even spoken about this yet."

"Probably, we will need a few days, fatigue... In fact, the majority of the members of the Synod, who were engaged in organizational issues, did not sleep. We will rest a little.

Based on the previous days, I think that the flow to the Sioni Cathedral will not stop. I think they will want to come here again and again," - says His Holiness Nikoloz.

Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, died on March 17 at the age of 93. The Patriarch was buried in Sioni Cathedral.