Studied at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy and at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow University. He served as a proofreader at the University Printing House. He taught rhetoric and poetics at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy (1772) and later took vows (1774). In 1788 he became Bishop of Oriol and Sevsk. He published a translation of the statistics course taught by Johann Gottfried Reichel at Moscow University (1773) under the title "Kratkoe rukovodstvo k poznaniiu naturalnago tserkovnago politicheskago ekonomicheskago i uchebnago sostoianiia nekotorykh znatneishikh evropeiskikh gosudarstv" ("A brief guide to knowledge of the natural, church, political, economic and educational state of some of the noblest European states") (1775).
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