sentences:  The titular Catholicoi of Abkhazia were only occasionally mentioned in the contemporary sources and did not enjoy independence at that time, but were subordinated to the Georgian Orthodox Patriarchal see at Mtskheta.According to a different account, Abkhazian bishoprics changed allegiance from Constantinople to Mtskheta in the beginning of the 10th cebturty.The first written account on the Catholicate of Abkhazia dates to 1290.