He was called to be the vicar of the parish of Aker as well as the priest serving Akershus Fortress.

The ceremony included music, military parades, bell-ringing, and gun salute with people gathering in the Fortress Church.

[4] Pavels was also present at the first defence of a doctorate thesis in Norway, at the University 18 June 1817, when Frederik Holst defended his thesis, "Morbus, quem Radesyge [no] vocant, quinam sit, quanamque ratione e Scandinavia tollendus".

The thesis was not translated into Norwegian until 188 years later, and the book from 2005 contains also Pavel's diary comments.

[9] From his position at Akershus Fortress, Pavels followed closely the political turbulence in 1814, with the Treaty of Kiel, the gathering of the Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll, the clash between Sweden and Norway, and the subsequent Union between Sweden and Norway.