High Priestly Mass and Ordination of Elder Damianos Baroutas in Karditsatranslated

With particular splendor and in an atmosphere of spiritual joy, the Divine Liturgy was held on the morning of Saturday, September 5, 2026, in the Holy Church of Agios Nikolaos Karditsis, during which the Archdeacon of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaliotides and Phanariofersalon, Father Damianos Baroutas, was ordained as a Presbyter. The Holy Mass was presided over by the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Ilio, Acharna and Petropolis, Mr. Athenagoras, while the ordination of the Archdeacon as a Presbyter was performed by the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Thessaliotidos and Phanariofersalon, Mr. Timotheus, in the presence of our local clergy and faithful. Church.

During the same liturgical Synagogue, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Ilio, Acharna and Petropolis, Mr. Athenagoras, also ordained the new Presbyter, Fr.

This day was an important milestone for the local Church, but also for Father Damianos himself, who, after his many years of ministry as Archdeacon, now entered the second degree of the Priesthood,...