The Rt. Rev. Archimandrite Calinic (Berger) was born in 1966 in Detroit, Michigan, and baptized by his maternal grandfather at St. Simion Romanian Orthodox Church. As a child and teen, he attended the Antiochian Orthodox Church of the Redeemer in Los Altos Hills, Calif., where his desire to serve God as a priest was formed.

Having graduated from Santa Clara University in California in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Fr. Calinic later enrolled in the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Mass., graduating in 1994. Following seminary, he enrolled in the doctoral program at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he completed his Ph.D. in Historical Theology in 2003. In between and during his theological studies, he continued to work as an electrical engineer in the semiconductor industry.

Ordained to the Holy Diaconate in 2005 and to the Holy Priesthood in 2006, Fr. Calinic has served as the pastor of Holy Cross Romanian Orthodox Church in Hermitage, Penn. (2006-15), and as the associate pastor of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Los Angeles, Calif. (2015-20) and St. George Cathedral in Wichita, Kan. (2020-24).

Fr. Calinic is adjunct professor of Dogmatic Theology at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Mass., and previously has served as visiting professor of Dogmatic Theology at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York. He has published and lectured in academic venues internationally.

On June 10, 2024, His Eminence, Metropolitan Saba appointed Fr. Calinic as Archiepiscopal Vicar for
Wichita and Mid-America. Three days later, on the great feast of the Ascension, Metropolitan Saba elevated Fr. Calinic to the dignity of archimandrite in Beaumont, Texas, at the Parish Life Conference of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America.