In 1900, in the Tiflis area populated by sectarians, three parochial schools were opened with his active participation, in which up to three hundred people studied.

In addition, he participated in the establishment of a department of the Society of Zealots of Russian Historical Education in the city in memory of Emperor Alexander III.

On January 6, 1901 he was elevated to the rank of archpriest in the Russian Orthodox Church, near simultaneously, he became the editor of the journal "Spiritual Herald of the Georgian Exarchate".

He was the initiator of the creation and, from January 1909, the deputy chairman of the Brotherhood of the Resurrection of Christ, created to organize the spiritual care of Russian settlers (it was chaired by Metropolitan Vladimir).

In 1909-1910, he organized pastoral and missionary courses in Moscow to train priests and teachers for parishes and schools created in the settler areas.

In addition, he inspected the Beijing Spiritual Mission and Orthodox churches in Northern Manchuria, and became familiar with the state of missionary work in Japan and Korea.

John of Kronstadt highly valued his work, saying "that he is a wonderful man, possessing extraordinary eloquence, that he is Chrysostom, that he can bring great benefit to Russia."

In 1913, when the Synod prohibited clergy from engaging in political activity, he left his leadership position in the Russian Monarchist Union, and in 1915, the Main Chamber of the RNSMA.

The political activities of Ivan Vostorgov were harshly criticized by the liberal public, as well as by some Black Hundred activists, who accused him, in particular, of criminal offenses, such as the murder of his wife (who was still alive at the time; she died in 1915).

[3] The conservative publicist Nikolai Durnovo was especially active in the right-wing press in speaking out against Ivan Vostorgov with accusations of various crimes.

Alexandra Bogdanovich, the wife of the right-wing monarchist activist Yevgeny Bogdanovich, wrote in her diary (referring to the right-wing political activist Boris Nikolsky ) regarding the investigation into the murder of State Duma deputies Grigory Iollos and Mikhail Gertsenstein: “…they will raise the case of Iollos’ murder, but who killed him?

[4] After the fall of the monarchy, without the blessing of Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow, he convened the Moscow Metropolitan Council of Deans under his chairmanship on March 7 ( March 20 ), 1917 to adopt a resolution: He considered it necessary to personally appear in print with an explanation of his political position, writing, in particular: “Why was everything suppressed in diocesan life in the old system?

After the Bolsheviks came to power, he sharply criticized their activities in his sermons and called on the Orthodox to immediately unite into “flock squads” to protect the church.

On May 30, 1918, he was arrested in his apartment together with Bishop Efrem (Kuznetsov) of Selenginsk, an old acquaintance of his who was unable to return to his Irkutsk diocese with the onset of political turmoil in Russia; he was accused of having agreed to the sale of the diocesan house, which had by that time already been nationalized by the new government.

On June 8, 1918, an article entitled "The Commercial Deal of Patriarch Tikhon, Archpriest Vostorgov and Co." was published in the Izvestia newspaper.

He was publicly executed on September 5, 1918, in Petrovsky Park along with Bishop Ephraim, as well as former Chairman of the State Council Ivan Shcheglovitov, former Ministers of Internal Affairs Nikolai Maklakov and Alexei Khvostov, and Senator Stepan Beletsky.

Everyone knelt down, and the fervent prayer of the "death row inmates" flowed, after which everyone approached for the blessing of Bishop Ephraim and Father Ivan, and then everyone said goodbye to each other.

The first to cheerfully approach the grave was Archpriest Vostorgov, who had said a few words to the others before, inviting everyone to bring the last atoning sacrifice with faith in God's mercy and the imminent revival of the Motherland.

"Hieromartyr Ivan Vostorgov became one of the main characters in Natalia Irtenina's historical novel "Crimson Robes" (Moscow, 2021), dedicated to the theme of new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church of the 20th century.