Priest of the Byzantine-Slavic rite, obtained a licentiate in Oriental Ecclesiastical Sciences from the Pontifical Oriental Institute. Since 1989 he has carried out his activity in Russia, first as chaplain at the Embassy of Italy in Moscow and, since 1991, as founder of the Institute of Theology for the Laity "St. Thomas Aquinas" in Moscow, where he taught Patrology and Dogmatic Theology. Returning to Italy in 2002, he obtained a doctorate in Oriental Ecclesiastical Sciences at the PIO, where he is a professor of the History of Russian Philosophy.