{"id":3922,"date":"2019-06-07T20:07:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/mhtropoliths-n-zhlandias\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:32:30","slug":"metropolitan-of-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/en\/holy-metropolis-of-new-zealand\/metropolitan-of-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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His Eminence Metropolitan of New Zealand, Mr. Myron<\/h2><\/span>
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(Ktistakis) was born on 15 September 1969. After completing his primary and secondary education in Heraklion, he received a degree from the Agricultural University of Athens in 1993 and undertook postgraduate studies at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania.<\/p>\n

In 1996 he was tonsured a monk at the Holy Monastery of Agarathos. He was ordained deacon in 1997.<\/p>\n

In 2001 he was ordained presbyter, elevated to Archimandrite, and received a degree from the Theological School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.<\/p>\n

In 2012 he received a degree from the Department of Natural Sciences and Technology. He is also a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Crete.<\/p>\n

He served as General Archiepiscopal Vicar of the Holy Metropolis of New Zealand. He also served as a member of the abbot\u2019s council of the Holy Monastery of Agarathos and as representative of the Holy Archdiocese of Crete on the Synodal Committee for Religious Tourism.<\/p>\n

He served as parish priest in various parishes of the Holy Archdiocese of Crete and at the metochion of the Life-Giving Spring (\u201cEleousa\u201d) of the Holy Monastery of Agarathos.<\/p>\n

Since 2015 he has held the position of preacher of the Holy Archdiocese of Crete. He speaks English.<\/p>\n

He has participated in various international and nationwide conferences and has represented the Holy Archdiocese of Crete on various occasions and events.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3923,"menu_order":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3922","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3922\/revisions\/4105"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.patriarchikoidryma.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}