 While the latter accusation was mainly grounded in a reading of his self-diagnosis as a "theomaniac", church historian Ciprian-Marius Sîrbu argues that Safirin's public statements were "borderline pathological".He speculates that, after being moved to Roman, Safirin was jealous of Ghenadie Georgescu, the titular bishop of Râmnic.However, Sîrbu also writes that the consistory, as a "double for the Synod", was "anti-canonical".