Background
Vasily was born in 1821, in Settlement Krasnaya Novokhoperskogo Uyezd, Voronezh province, Russia. Son of the sexton.
Vasiliy
Vasily was born in 1821, in Settlement Krasnaya Novokhoperskogo Uyezd, Voronezh province, Russia. Son of the sexton.
He graduated from the Voronezh Theological Seminary (1841), then the Kiev Theological Academy (1847).
A priest in the settlement of Alfyorovka of the Novokhopersky Uyezd (1841-1843). In 1845 he took monastic vows. Teacher of the biblical and ecclesiastical history of the Voronezh Theological Seminary (1847-1853), at the same time a teacher of the Voronezh Alexandrinsky orphanage (1848-1850). Collaborated with the Russian Geographical Society, which expressed to him "sincere gratitude for the delivery of climatological and ethnographic information." Inspector of Kursk (1853-1858), rector of Orel (1858-1861), Archangel (1861-1866), Novgorod. (1866-1870) Theological seminaries. Bishop of Balta, vicar of the Podolsky diocese (1870-1879). The prior of the Poltava Cross Exaltation Monastery (1879-1883).