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In 1905, he was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] bishop. In 1908, he was appointed Bishop of Kishinev and then, in 1912, appointed [[Archbishop]] of Tver. In 1918, he was appointed Metropolitan of Warsaw, but was not able to reach his [[see]] because Poland would not grant him permission to enter the country.
In 1922, Seraphim was arrested by the Bolshevik government and was imprisoned. He was released in 1927 after he expressed support for the acting [[locum tenens]] Metropolitan [[Sergius I (Stragorodsky) of Moscow|Sergius (Stragorodsky)]]. In, 1928, he was elected Metropolitan of Leningrad and Gdovsk. In 1929, Seraphim presided at the funeral of the martyred Archbishop Hilarion after he was executed by the Bolshevik government.
In 1933, Seraphim was arrested and imprisoned again, and then executed by a firing squad during the purges in 1937 at Shcherbinka, Yuzhnoye Butovo District, a place of mass executions.
