PS Iachint de Pacific celebrates his spiritual protectortranslated

Vicar Vicar Iachint of the Pacific of the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand celebrates on Wednesday his spiritual protector, the Holy Hierarch Iachint, Metropolitan of Romania.

Born on June 22, 1989, in Bucharest, in the family of Constantin and Margareta Vardianu, the hierarch received the name of Ioan Cătălin at Baptism.

In 2004, he began his studies at the "Nifon Mitropolitul" Orthodox High School Theological Seminary in Bucharest, during which time he entered the "Radu Vodă" Monastery in Bucharest as a novice brother.

From 2008, he became a student of the "Justinian Patriarch" Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest, at the Pastoral Theology section, obtaining his bachelor's degree in 2012, the year in which he also began his master's courses.

Also in 2008, he was ordained a monk at the "Radu Vodă" Monastery, having as his godparents the archimandrites Nectarie Șofelea, the abbot of the monastery, and Policarp Chițulescu, the director of the Library of the Holy Synod. On April 5, 2009, he was ordained a hierodeacon, and six years later a hieromonk.

Specialized in Law He started his doctorate in 2015, at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology "Saint Ilarion Felea" in Arad, which he completed with...