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He graduated from Bonnie Doone High School in Edmonton and took a general Bachelor of Arts at the University of Alberta, contemplating a career in music. While there "the Lord backed him into a comer", and young Storheim went on to the Vancouver School of Theology. His stay in Vancouver brought him to [http://www.holyres.org Holy Resurection Resurrection Russian Orthodox Church]where, among the local Russian parishioners, he met for the first time converts to Orthodoxy from a Canadian background. After a while he became acquainted with the clergy of the church: Archpriests Oleg Boldireff, Peter Kurzemnek, John Karateev, later with Bishop Joasaph and with some original parishioners, like Mr. Anatole Portnoff, the singer of the Church choir. The future bishop was delighted by the Orthodox Church services and Church music and became a frequent visitor here. In this church the "seed of true faith fell on good soil in his heart and the plant grew and bore grain in abundance", but not before he went through a few more years of searching and contemplation.