Afterwards he was appointed a professor at the Ecclesiastical Academy of Moscow, and then the locum tenens chaplain-general at the Lavra of St. Alexander Nevsky in St.

[1] In 1721, at Lavra Caves Monastery, he was consecrated bishop of Pereyaslavl in preparation for his leadership of the Orthodox mission to China.

After numerous miracles attributed to his intercession, he was glorified a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1804.

[1] In 1921 the Soviet government confiscated his relics and placed them on display in various museums as a "Siberian mummy".

[citation needed] He is occasionally confused with the later Innocent of Alaska who was named in his honor.