Graduating in 1898, he enrolled in the doctoral program at Czernowitz University upon the recommendation of Bishop Iosif Goldiș.

In 1906, when fourteen members of the Romanian National Party were elected to the Hungarian Parliament, his expressed support for their policies led him to clash with the Institute's director.

The same year, he was named school inspector for the Arad Diocese, later taking charge of cultural affairs.

[2] He took part in the December 1918 assembly that marked the union of Transylvania with Romania, where a solemn prayer he had written for the occasion was read aloud.

The following March, in Sibiu, he took part in the founding congress of the Transylvanian Orthodox Clergy Association, where he was the first to officially propose raising the church to the level of a Patriarchate.