Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II in Sioni Cathedral performed the church service  on the occasion of the restoration of autocephaly of Georgian Orthodox Church.

Before the church service  Patriarch appealed to the preach and talked about the importance of this day of Autocephaly restoration.

"Church has become the principles upon which our culture , literature, history has been  built. The fifth century was the century when Vakhtang Gorgasali with the praying of Antioch  Patriarch appointed Peter as the  Catholicos of Georgia. As in Georgia   The first Patriarch of Antioch was Peter. The Autocephaly was the rudiment upon what the history of Georgian Church is based. The Autocephaly of Church conditioned the future of hole country. “