Ordination of Jeremy Burrows to the Holy Diaconate

On Sunday, June 3/16, 2014, the Sunday of All Saints, His Eminence, Metropolitan Moses of Toronto, ordained Jeremy Burrows to the Holy Diaconate in the parish of St. Joseph of Arimathea in Whitevale (Pickering), Ontario, Canada.

Please find pictures from the ordination below.

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