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

5 September 1919, Sukhumi

(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, f. 1863, desc. 1, file 707, p. 3)