Maxim continued his studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, where he received a licentiate in 2000.

[2][3] On 24 September 2004 he joined the Ukrainian Studite Monks and made a religious profession in the Univ Lavra on 5 March 2006, after completed the novitiate and a little schime on 22 May 2008.

[4] During 2009–2010 he served as a superior of St. Andrew ermitage in Luzhky, from 2010 until 2011 as a novice master in the Univ Lavra and from 2011 until 2013 as a superior of St. Michael monastery in Lviv[3] and then continued his studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome with Doctor of Theology degree in the Eastern Ecclesiastical Studies in 2017.

Maxim again served as a superior of St. Michael monastery in Lviv from 2018 until 2020, when he was elected as a Hegumen of Univ Holy Dormition Lavra of the Studite Rite.

Maxim was appointed by Pope Francis as the second Metropolitan Archbishop of Prešov and the head of the Slovak Greek Catholic sui iuris.