Graduate of the Theological Institute of Cernăuţi, monk of Sucevita monastery in 1885, Bishop of Rădăuţi, metropolitan of Bucovina during 1902-1924, vice-president of the Society for Culture and Literature in Bucovina (1889-1896), deputy in the Parliament of Vienna, fighter for national rights, presided in the Metropolitan Palace the General Assembly of Bucovina on November 28, 1918 when the Union of Bucovina was decided, was part of the delegation that handed the Act of the Union of Bucovina to King Ferdinand I.