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Archimandrite Maxim Drăguț to be ordained Assistant Bishop for Romanians in Italy

Archimandrite Maxim Drăguț will be ordained Assistant Bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Italy on 7–8 September at the Parish of the Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste in Moncalieri. He was elected by the Holy Synod on 2 July and will serve as Bishop of Danubius alongside Bishop Siluan.

Archimandrite Maxim Drăguț, Assistant Bishop-elect of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Italy, will be ordained to the episcopate at the Parish of the Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste in Moncalieri, near Turin, Italy. Services will take place on 7–8 September.

The programme will begin on the evening of Monday, 7 September, with Great Vespers at 18:00, followed by the Proclamation of Election and Calling of the Bishop-Elect at 19:00.

On 8 September, the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God, Matins will be officiated at 07:00, followed by the candidate’s profession of faith at 08:30.

The Divine Liturgy will begin at 09:30, during which Metropolitan Iosif of Western and Southern Europe, together with other hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church, will ordain the new Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Italy.

Archimandrite Maxim Drăguț was elected by the Holy Synod at its meeting on 2 July. The new hierarch will bear the title “Bishop of Danubius” and will serve alongside Bishop Siluan of Italy.

Archimandrite Maxim Drăguț was born on 10 April 1988. He graduated from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology “Patriarch Justinian” in Bucharest and the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration in Suceava. He subsequently completed two master’s programmes, in Iași from 2014 to 2016 and in Bucharest from 2019 to 2021.

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