Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II has spoken about those violations, which were made by some Russian priests in His Sunday Preachment.

Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II said, "The Russian priests often come to Abkhazia and unilaterally, without our permission, carry out public liturgies ".

"We have received several letters from Aleksey II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in which it is said that the Russian Federation and the Russian Orthodox Church respect Georgia's territorial integrity and respect the Tskhum-Abkhazian Eparchy as one of the eparchies of the Georgian Orthodox Church", Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II said.