Protopresbyter Georgios Kortas

Name: Protopresbyter Georgios

Surname: Kortas

Date and place of birth: 22/01/1980, Lefkosia

Father’s name: Zinon Kortas

Mother’s name: Stella Lefkosiatou-Korta

Marital status: Married

(Wife’s name: Maria Patsalou, Teacher of Computer Teachnology)

National Service: Completed July, 2002. Served in the Ordnance Corps.

Reserve Officer, Chaplain’s Department

Address: Lykavittou 12A, 6025, Larnaka

Studies:

1994-1997: Graduated from the Archbishop Makarios 3^rd Technical School, Lefkosia.

Department of Computer Technicians

Overall mark: 17 8/12

1997-2000: Graduate of Α.Τ.Ι (Department of Information Technology)

Final Study in Multimedia, on the subject of  Navigating on the Holy Mountain, (marked A)

Languages: Greek and English

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

He has worked in the following companies:

While a student at ATI, he worked in various companies, as required by his curriculum. Some of these were: GCC Compaq, Novasys, Global-soft, MM PC Master, Power-soft, and others.

• 1997-2000: Cynex, computer technician. (Part-time, afternoons only)
• 2001-2002: Bull, A. Th. Loizou, computer technician (installation of networks and programmes).
• 2002-2003: Part-time at the Fakas schools (teaching Pascal, Visual Basic, Office and Internet)
• Since October 2002 he has been working at Ethniki Asfalistiki in the Data Processing department (mostly with Visual Basic, Access, and on the insurance programmes).

Both at Α.Τ.Ι as well as at the various jobs he has done, he has worked with Visual Basic, Pascal, Oracle, Office (Access, Word, Excel) , C++ and other programmes.

At the time when he worked at Bull-NEC (A.Th.Loizou) and now in the Information department at Ethniki Asfalistiki Ellados-Kyprou, he has attended seminars on A+ and Network+ at the NP Institute in Lefkosia.

Activities:

1993-1997: Olympus Academy Aglantzia (Basket-ball)

1997-2001: Cyprus National Korfball team

1997-2001: President of the Information branch at Α.Τ.Ι.

Clerical

11.11.2005 Ordained deacon by the Most Holy Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol

at the Monastery of Mahaira

29.7.2006 Ordained priest by the Most Holy Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol at the Monastery of Saint George, Alamano

13.9.2014 Promoted to Protopresbyter by the Most Holy Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol at the Monastery of Mahaira

Responsibilities

Since 2006, responsible, together with Archimandrite Chrysostomos for the web page of the Holy Metropolis of Limassol.

Since 2006, responsible for the publication of the monthly periodical THE RECRUIT published also in electronic format, which is produced by the church of Saint Theodore the Recruit in Monagroulli, where he is priest-in-charge, and is responsible for the site o-tiron.blogspot.com.

Since 2012, in charge of the Anti-Heresy Office of the Holy Metropolis of Limassol and commissioner of Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol at the Synodal Committee of the Church of Cyprus on heresies, with participation in Pan-Orthodox seminars in Serbia (2012) and Russia (2014).