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Under strict sanitary measures and with the participation of a few hierarchs, the outgoing delegation of the Metropolitan Langadas was held, who died on Sunday due to complications from a coronavirus.
The procession took place in the Metropolitan Church of Agia Paraskevi Lagada, in a ceremony officiated by the Metropolitan of Serres Theologos. There are few hierarchs and non-believers. 
The metropolitan of Lagada, Litis and Rentinis Ioannis had fallen ill with coronavirus and was hospitalized at the Papageorgiou Hospital where he breathed his last. 
The transfer of the Metropolitan’s coffin was done with great care to protect everyone from the people who wore special uniforms due to the coronavirus. 
The blessed metropolitan was dismissed with warm words by the metropolitan of Metro and Athyra Dimitrios, as representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and vicar of the metropolis of Lagada, metropolitan of Serres Theologos.
“My dear brother Ioannis, communication with you has always been a source of joy. It was an occasion for a common spiritualism, as we share common visions, common concerns and especially our love for our mother Church, who is the nurturer and savior of this nation. and our nation. “Yesterday was bitter for me too, for the people of the metropolis and for those who really loved you,” Metropolitan Theologos said at the funeral.
“His memory will be indelible in our hearts, in our souls. May the land of his beloved land, the city of Langadas, be light, bring him closer to it,” said the Deputy Minister of Macedonia-Thrace, referring to the personality and work of the Metropolitan Blessed. “He had created institutions, he had created a series of structures to cover a series of social problems facing the region.” He was always on the front line, “he stressed.
“Great pain, great mourning, he filled the void left by our parish priest”, said the mayor of Lagada I. Tachmatzidis, adding: “He was an exuberant personality, with an enormous work in the Diocese of Langada, pastoral, cultural. “His legacy is huge.” 
Flower offerings were sent in his memory by the sister of the late metropolitan, the Mayor of Thessaloniki Konstantinos Zervas, the commander of the 3rd SS, representatives of organizations and unions, etc.
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