In 1994, Columba Sanders was ordained Deacon by Archbishop Gregorios of blessed memory, receiving the name Pancratios after the first Bishop of Taormina in Sicily. Father Deacon Pancratios was ordained priest in 1996.

In 1997 he took charge of parish matters and was subsequently honoured as Protopresbyter in 2009.

Father Pancratios retired in February 2023.