Background and Education
Benjamin was born to a priestly family in the pogost (village) of Nimenskii in the Andreevksii volost of the Kargopol uezd near Arkhangelsk in the Olonets Governorate in the northwest of the Russian empire. He graduated from the Olonets Seminary in 1893 and earned his kandidatura in theology from the St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy in 1897, defending a thesis on Archbishop Arkadii of Olonets' anti-heretical activities. He was tonsured a monk in 1895 and ordained a hierodeacon (deacon-monk) that same year and a hieromonk (priest-monk) in 1896.
Following his graduation he taught sacred scripture at the Riga Seminary and was then inspector of the Kholm Seminary and the St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy before becoming rector of the Samara Spiritual Academy (with the rank of archimandrite) in 1902. In 1905, he became rector of the St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy.
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