Deputatov was born on 22 January 1977 in a working-class family in the village settlement of Tugoles, Shatursky District, Moscow Oblast.
[2] In June 2002 he defended his thesis at SPbDA on the topic "Fundamentals of the social concept of the Russian Orthodox Church in the light of the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament."
Starting in September 2003 he was a professor of the subjects "Pastoral Theology", "Homiletics" and "Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church.
[3] On 18 August 2011, during a divine service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Patriarch Kirill elevated him to the rank of archimandrite.
[6] On 26 December 2012, he was approved as the priest archimandrite of the Pokrovsky Verkhnemakeevsky monastery of the village of Verkhne-Makeevka, Rostov region.
[12] On 28 August 2020, he celebrated the last Divine Liturgy at the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Vologda, co-served with his successor, Metropolitan Sabbas (Mikheev) [ru].