He attended the First Council of Lyon, perhaps to discuss a union of the churches, and answered questions concerning the Mongols that are recorded in the Tractatus de ortu Tartarorum.

Belgorod Diocese was actually formed (spun off from the Patriarchal area) only in 1667 with the appointment of the chair of the Serbian Metropolitan Theodosius.

In 1667, the diocese was "open" to the south (i.e., had the southern border, including the then inhabited the entire Russian territory) and included 37 cities (20 "old", north of Belgorod features, chief of Belgorod, and 17 "new", that is newly constructed, mainly in Slobozhanschyna, chief Kharkov) and in 1679 in the diocese already had 542 churches.

Only during the 16th and 17th centuries in the future of the Belgorod province there 59 monasteries, including such well-known men like Kharkov Svyatogorskaya deserts in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, Hotmyzhsky monastery in honor of the Blessed Virgin "The Omen", Glinskaya deserts.

As an exception to Count PB Sheremetev managed to defend Bogoroditskoe deserts Tikhvin, probably only because it contained a purely "Dependent" of the graph.

Resolution of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on July 18, 1995 has been restored within the Department of Belgorod Oblast.