Background
Alexander was born in 1821, in Minsk, Belarus.
Alexander was born in 1821, in Minsk, Belarus.
Alexander graduated from the Lithuanian Theological Seminary (the city of Vilna, 1843), the Petersburg Theological Academy (1853). In 1848 he became a monk.
1853-1860 - inspector of the Minsk Theological Seminary
1861-1867 - principal of the Polotsk Theological Seminary
1861-1867 - prior of Vitebsk Markov
1867-1876 - Novgorod-Seversky and Savior-Transfiguration monasteries
1879-1886 - Teacher of the Simbirsk Theological Seminary (1876-1879). Rector of the church in the Russian embassy in Athens, where he organized a school for Russian children
1886-1887 - Bishop of Baltia, vicar of the Podolsky diocese
1887-1890 - Bishop Ostrogozhsky, vicar of the Voronezh diocese, at the same time rector of Alekseevsky Akatova monastery.
1890-1892 - Bishop of Umansky, vicar of the Kiev diocese
1892-1894 - Bishop of Kaluga and Borovsky
1894-1898 - Member of the Moscow Synodal Office, priorof the Zaikonospassky Monastery