On October 3, on the feast of Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite, Bishop of Athens, Metropolitan Maximos of Switzerland presided over the Divine Liturgy in the Holy Cross Church of St. Apostle Paul in Chambesy and ordained Deacon Matthew Ladas as a presbyter.
“With the ordination of Fr. Matthew”, the Metropolitan said, “and those who, by the grace of God, will follow, there are more priests who sacrificially serve the liturgical program of old or newly established parishes that cannot have regularly a priest.
They will take up priestly positions in good time, which will be created both by the retirement of older priests and by the establishment of new parishes.
The new Parishes will emerge from the necessary redefinition of the boundaries of old large parishes, given the spectacular increase of the faithful of the Metropolis due to the significant wave of new migratory flows during the last decade.”
Before the dismissal of the Divine Liturgy, the new presbyter was ordained an Archimandrite.
Archimandrite Matthew Ladas studied Applied Mathematics (University of Crete), Marine Engineering and Theology (University of Athens) and received his postgraduate degree after having attended the Institute of Postgraduate Studies of the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Chambesy, Geneva) and the Universities of Geneva and Fribourg.
Source: fosfanariou.gr
