Bishop Shio elected as new Patriarch of Georgia with 22 votes — voting results

TASS · May 11, 2026 · 134 words

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What to know about Bishop Shio elected as new Patriarch of Georgia with 22 votes — voting results

Bishop Shio has been elected as the 142nd Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, receiving 22 out of 39 votes. His enthronement is scheduled for May 12 at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta.

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What happened

The extended church assembly has elected Bishop Shio, who served as locum tenens of the deceased head of the church, Ilia II, as the 142nd Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, according to the voting results announced by Bishop Anania.

Why it matters

"The Catholicos-Patriarch of the autocephalous Apostolic Orthodox Church of All Georgia has been elected Metropolitan Shio," Bishop Anania noted, adding that Shio received 22 votes out of 39.

Common ground

The newly elected Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, Bishop Shio, who will reportedly bear the name Shio III, is to be enthroned on May 12 in the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in the city of Mtskheta, near Tbilisi.

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Bishop Shio has been elected as the 142nd Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, receiving 22 out of 39 votes. His enthronement is scheduled for May 12 at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The service will begin at 10:00 a.m. [6:00 a.m. GMT]”

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The provided evidence for claim 5 consists of search results for 'Microsoft', which are completely irrelevant to the enthronement service of Shio III. No relevant evidence regarding the service time was provided in the evidence block.

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web search NEUTRAL — Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to market BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the PC operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

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web search NEUTRAL — Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation based in Redmond, Washington, USA and founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of prod…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Microsoft

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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 15, 2025 · Microsoft is one of the largest software companies in the world by market cap. Microsoft was co-founded by Bill Gates, and the company is now led by CEO Satya Nadella.
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft

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Claim 2: “the newly elected Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, Bishop Shio... will reportedly bear the name Shio III”

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Wikipedia and multiple news sources confirm that the new Patriarch bears the name Shio III.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (Georgian: სრულიად საქართველოს კათოლიკოს პატრიარქი) is the Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi and the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church. The official full ti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicos-Patriarch_of_All_Ge…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ilia II (secular name Irakli Gudushauri-Shiolashvili; 4 January 1933 – 17 March 2026) was the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from 1977 until his death in 2026. He was the longest serving patriarc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_II_of_Georgia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shio III (secular name Elizbar Mujiri; born 1 February 1969) is the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia. He was previously the bishop of Senaki and Chkhorotsku since 2003 and locum tenens of the Patr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shio_III_of_Georgia

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Claim 3: “The extended church assembly has elected Bishop Shio... as the 142nd Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia”

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Wikipedia and multiple web search results confirm that Bishop Shio was elected as the 142nd Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia on May 11, 2026.

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Claim 4: “Bishop Shio... served as locum tenens of the deceased head of the church, Ilia II”

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Wikipedia and web sources explicitly state that Shio Mujiri served as locum tenens of the Patriarchal Throne since 2017 and acted as temporary leader following the death of Ilia II.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church and of its direct predecessors in the ancient Georgian Kingdom of Iberia (Kartli) have continuously borne the title Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia since …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_the_Georgian_…

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Claim 5: “is to be enthroned on May 12 in the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in the city of Mtskheta, near Tbilisi”

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Multiple independent sources (Wikipedia and various news outlets) confirm the enthronement is scheduled for May 12 at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An election for the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia was held on 11 May 2026, following the death of Ilia II of Georgia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Georgian_patriarchal_elec…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — May 8 – Eastern Orthodox Church calendar – May 10 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 22 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For May 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar comme…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_9_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturg…

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Claim 6: “Shio received 22 votes out of 39”

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There is a contradiction in the evidence. One source (TASS) mentions 22 votes, but another source (BREAKING: Metr. Shio Elected...) claims 'Ilia II won 22 out of 39 possible votes', which is logically impossible as Ilia II was the deceased predecessor. The specific number of votes for Shio is inconsistent across the provided snippets.

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