Metropolitan Ioannis of Langadas gave his response to the question raised about his presence in Kiev, Ukraine, for the events in honour of St. Vladimir.
As he says, he went to Kiev in his academic capacity “as a professor of the Theological School of the University of Uzhhorod in western Ukraine.
He added that he did not attend the events as a representative of the Church of Greece, which has not taken yet a synodal decision regarding the recognition of the Autocephalous Church of Ukraine.