Baptismal Name: Ivan
Rank: Metropolitan
Place of Birth: Brîni, Kaluga
Date of Birth: September 22, 1844
Date of Death: 1922, Tomsk
Enthronement: January 26, 1898
Retirement: 1904
Affiliation: Russian Orthodox Church
Education: Theological Academy in Moscow
Biography:
He was born on September 22, 1844, in Brîni, Diocese of Kaluga.
He graduated from the Theological Seminary in Kaluga and the Theological Academy in Moscow in 1870 with the degree of Candidate in Theology and remained at the Academy as assistant to the Secretary of the Council.
In 1872 – administrator at the Theological School in Meshchovsk of the Kaluga Diocese.
On October 16, 1873 – professor at the Theological Seminary in Vifansk.
On November 6, 1878 – received the degree of Master in Theology.
On August 12, 1886 – tonsured a monk.
On August 17 – ordained priest.
On October 1 – received the rank of archimandrite and was appointed rector of the Theological Seminary in Vifansk.
On April 28, 1891 – consecrated bishop of Balakhna, vicar of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese. He was consecrated in Moscow at the Cathedral of the Mother of God.
On September 29, 1892 – Bishop of Uman, vicar of the Diocese of Kiev.
On January 16, 1893 – Bishop of Chyhyryn, vicar of the Diocese of Kiev.
On January 26, 1898 – Bishop of Chișinău and Hotin.
On August 12, 1904 – Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov. In the same year, he was elected honorary member of the Theological Academy in Kiev.
In 1906, he became a member of the Presence of the Presoborial Council and was president of Section III regarding reforms of the ecclesiastical court.
On January 25, 1907 – Archbishop of Simbirsk and Syzran.
On December 10, 1910 – Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsk.
On September 29, 1912 – honorary member of the Theological Academies of Moscow and Kazan.
On October 5, 1916 – decorated with the Diamond Cross. He participated in the Council of All Russia, held in Moscow in 1917, where Patriarch Tikhon elevated him to the rank of Metropolitan and appointed him Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk.
After the closure of the Cathedral, he left Kazan and moved to live in Irkutsk.
He passed away in 1922 in Tomsk following a complicated surgical operation.