In 1989, he enrolled into the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1993 [REF].
From 1994 to 1995, he studied at Christ the Savior Theological Seminary of the American Carpatho-Rusyn Orthodox Diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Johnstown, Pennsylvania under the omophorion of His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas (Smisko) of Amissos [REF].