Background
The Uniate, later the Orthodox churchman. He was born in the family of the priest in the village of Old Rudnya Ragachov region.
churchman later the orthodox churchman
The Uniate, later the Orthodox churchman. He was born in the family of the priest in the village of Old Rudnya Ragachov region.
He was the Doctor of Theology (1825). He graduated from The Main Catholic Seminary at Vilnius University (1819). From
1824 he was the prefect and the inspector of Polotsk Unitarian seminary, a cathedral canon. From 1828 he was the assessor of the Greco-Uniate College in Petersburg. From 1834 he was the bishop of Orsha in the Belarusian Uniate diocese, in 1838 he was the bishop of Belarus (Polotsk). In 12.2.1839 together with other leading Uniate clergymen, he signed an act of The Polotsk church council in 1839 about the abolition of the Union of Brest in 1596 and accession to the Orthodox Church. Since 1840, he was an Orthodox bishop of Polotsk. In 1866 he was released from the leadership of the diocese and he was called a member of the Holy Synod. He was the author of memoirs.