The Head of the Department of External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Archbishop Oleksandr (Drabynko) of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vyshneve met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Greece.
With the blessing of Metropolitan Volodymyr, the archbishop presented to the ambassador the Order of the Holy Great Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Kyiv of UOC-MP “for his numerous merits with respect to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and on occasion of the 20th anniversary of Independence of Ukraine.”
According to the web site of UOC-MP, the parties discussed the status of the Church-state relations and the issue of the pilgrimages of Ukrainian citizens to Greece.