 During his visit to the parishes in the Varaždin Generalate in 1782, Bishop Josif received all the deceived Serbs back into Orthodoxy and "took vigorous steps to allow all the repentant unidentified people to return to Orthodoxy.Now there was a great persecution of all who declared that they were returning to Orthodoxy, and at the beginning of 1783, they were full of dungeons, especially in Belovar.