On November 5, 1989, Tsujie was ordained by Bishop Herman Swaiko as a celibate deacon and served in the Holy Resurrection Cathedral.
On September 6, 1999, at the Dormition Cathedral, Patriarch Alexy II elevated Seraphim to the rank of abbot.
On December 28 of the same year, by resolution of the Holy Synod, he was appointed the Bishop of Sendai of Orthodox Church in Japan.
[2] With a report on the Japanese Orthodox Church, he took part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Christianity in the Far East", held from September 19 to 21, 2006 in Khabarovsk.
The areas within the Sendai Diocese were the hardest hit by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, but Seraphim himself was not injured.