After completing his compulsory military service in the Czechoslovak Army, he served briefly as a pastor in several Subcarpathian parishes in Berezovo and Nizhny Bystriy before being assigned as professor of philosophy at the Eparchial Seminary in Ungvár (today Uzhhorod) in 1939.
After completing his mandatory military service with the Czechoslovak Army, he served as a pastor for a short time in several Subcarpathian parishes before being appointed to teach philosophy at the Eparchial Seminary in Ungvár (now Uzhhorod) in 1939.