monastic life (in 1980), Brancoveanu Monastery at Sâmbătă de Sus (Romania), being he was tonsured into monasticism, on May 24, 1983.During his monastic life, His Grace was ordained into the various ranks of Holy Orders (Hierodeacon, on May 3, 1983, by Archbishop JOHN of Helsinki, Finland; Hieromonk, on November 17, 1984, in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu by His Eminence Metropolitan Antonie.On August 15, 1988, he was blessed as Protosinghel by His Eminence Antonie; on January 1, 1993, named Hegumen of the Brancoveanu Monastery; in 1993 named Exarch of Monasteries in the Transylvania Metropolia; on August 15, 1993, Archimandrite and Abbot of the Brancoveanu Monastery on the occasion of the consecration of the Monastery by His Holiness, BARTHOLOMEW I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and His Beatitude TEOCTIST, Patriarch of Romania.
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