Background
Mikhail Alekseevich Smirnov (Mefody) was born on November 7, 1761 in Gzhatsk, Russian Federation.
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Mikhail Alekseevich Smirnov (Mefody) was born on November 7, 1761 in Gzhatsk, Russian Federation.
Mikhail Alekseevich graduated from the Trinity-Sergius theological Seminary (1782).
In 1782 Mikhail Alekseevich Smirnov became a monk. He was a lecturer (1782-1783), rector and professor of theology (1783-1790) of the Trinity-Sergius theological Seminary. He was a rector and professor of the theology of the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy (1790-1794). Archimandrite of the Novospassky monastery, member of the Holy Synod (1794-1795). Bishop of Voronezh and Cherkassy (1795-1799), Tula and Kolomna (1799-1803), Archbishop of Tver (1803-1814), Pskov (since 1814).