cecan's status was improved by these political developments, seeing him ordained as a "protoiereus" of the romanian orthodox church. he returned to his nișcani parish, where he built a church, and continued to involve himself in political and religious disputes. by 1925–1926, he was putting out the magazine "unirea" (or "yedineniye"), which was a continuation of "obyedineniye". here and in his propaganda brochures, cecan took a strongly anti-communist and anti-soviet position, describing communism as being intertwined with pan-slavism and russian orthodoxy. he looked into ways of emancipating romanian orthodoxy from its slavic counterparts, looking into the precedent set by the romanian church united with rome, greek-catholic. however, cecan now defended worship in russian against official romanianization.