MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF THE COMMISSARIAT OF ABKHAZIA
3 September 1919
Attended: Chairman of the
Commissariat D.K. Emukhvari; Commissar of the
Internal Affairs, Education and Justice I.N. Lordkipanidze;
Clerk of the Commissariat K.G. Chanturia.
Heard: on taking the vacant position of the
Head of Abkhaz Churches.
Decided: to appoint archimandrite John as the
acting Head of the Abkhaz Orthodox Churches from September 1 retaining at him
his current position.
Chairman of the Commissariat: D. Emukhvari
For the Commissar of Internal Affairs, Education and Justice I.
Lordkipanidze
Authentic with original:
Clerk of the Commissariat K. Chanturia
(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia,
f. 1863, desc. 1, file 707, p. 3)