Eftimie was the
hegumen, or head, of the
Bistrița Monastery in
Moldavia.
Stephen Báthory,
Voivode of Transylvania, appointed him to be the bishop of the
Eastern Orthodox Romanians in his realm on 5 October 1571. During the reign of Báthory's Protestant predecessor,
John Sigismund Zápolya, a Romanian Calvinist cleric was appointed as bishop of the Transylvanian Romanians, although most Romanians refused to convert to Calvinism. With Eftimie's appointment, the
Catholic Báthory restored the Orthodox church hierarchy in Transylvania. Eftimie was ordained bishop by the
Serbian patriarch,
Makarije, at
Peć in April 1572. His jurisdiction included Transylvania proper and
Partium. Two years later he left Transylvania for Moldavia where he was made the bishop of
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