While visiting Poland, Lucaris saw that the Orthodox there, priests and laity alike, were in a deplorable spiritual condition as a result of their lack of education.
साथ ही यूरोप में हो रहे धर्म सुधार का भी उस पर काफी प्रभाव पड़ा इसलिए वह शायद जनीवा गया ।