On October 30, 2013 Borodyanskyi Bishop, Vicar of the Diocese of Kyiv Archimandrite Varsonofyi
on behalf of the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Beatitude Volodymyr awarded the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Hellenic Republic Volodymyr Shkurov the for services to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and in memory of 1025 Anniversary of the Christianization of Kievan Rus.
The ceremony took place in the Greek city of Thessaloniki on the day of dispatching to Kyiv the holy relic of the St. George the Victorious in the presence of members of the Ukrainian and Greek delegations.