 After a few months of autonomy was adopted in Rome in the bosom of the Catholic Church being named Titular bishop of Ratiaria on October 6, 1945, he could preserved the Eastern rite, and then erected by Pope Pius XII to the rank of Metropolitan with a right cross and precarrying awarded a pectoral cross.As Archbishop and Uniate Metropolitan gained autonomy in December 1945, came to Munich, where he began to publish the magazine "The Bell" and gave it to Uniate Church.However, a year and a half was exposed as an impostor, removed and sent to a Catholic monastery.