Leontius (von Wimpffen)

Metropolitan Leontius was Metropolitan of the North Diocese of Russian Church from 1950 death in 1965. He was succeeded Metropolitan Irenaeus. Leonid Ieronimovich Turkevich to priesthood in 1905, and succeeded his father priest of Kremenetz. He was along with his family, to the States in October and became rector of a newly established seminary Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fr. Leonid represented the American of Russian Church at the Church Council of in Moscow, Russia. Fr. Leonid, whose had in 1925, was consecrated of Chicago in 1933. He was given the Leonty his tonsure as monastic. Archbishop Leonty was elected Metropolitan of Diocese unanimously during 8 Sobor, in December 1950. He succeeds Theophilus, who died June of that year. In July 1988, Metropolitan Leonty's Tamara Skvir, 50 bound volumes of diaries and covering the period from 19061964 to the Congress. The collection also includes approximately 000 as well as miscellaneous memoranda and historical documents.

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