Metropolitan, theologian and historian. He graduated from St. Petersburg Theological Academy. In 1914-1917, Archbishop of Kharkov and Akhtyrsky. From 1918, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galich. In 1919-1920 he headed the Provisional Supreme Church Administration in the south of Russia. In 1920 he emigrated to Constantinople. From 1921 he lived in Serbia (Sremski Karlovci). In 1921-1936, head of the Council of Bishops and the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad. He was awarded the insignia of the Red Cross for help and the Committee of Child Care (1924). In the same year in Paris at a meeting of Russian Monarchist Party, he delivered a speech at a meeting of Russian Student Christian Movement (RSCM). Author of numerous books on religion. Delegate of the Russian Overseas Congress in Paris from the Russian emigration in Yugoslavia (1926). In 1926 in Paris he released a book "The Teaching of the Church of the Holy Spirit."
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