During 1977-1981 he attended the Theological Seminary in Leningrad (now is Sankt-Petersburg), ROC and, after his marriage in March 1981, was ordained as a deacon by Archbishop of Tikhvin, Meliton Solovyov.
On April 19, 1981, he was ordained a priest by Archbishop of Smolensk and Vyazma, Feodosiy Protsyuk.
He served as a parish priest in ROC and graduated in absentia from the Theological Academy in Moscow (1985–1989) with a Th.D.
He was divorced from his wife, and supported Metropolitan Filaret (Denysenko) in split from the ROC and the creation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate.
On 28 January 2008, he joined to the True Russian Orthodox Church (some marginal organization) as Archbishop of Lutsk and Volyn, but on 29 May 2009, he retired for health reasons.