 According to "L'Espresso", this was made possible by the intervention of a "high-ranking [Italian Catholic] prelate".He was subsequently a writer at the "Solia" Romanian language newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.At the Congress of the dissident Romanian Orthodox Church in America held in Chicago on July 2, 1951, Trifa was chosen bishop and then moved to Grass Lake, Michigan, where the headquarters of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate is located.