Leonid Feodorov was born in St Petersburg in 1879 to a Russian Orthodox family. In 1902 he left the Orthodox seminary, went to Rome and became a Catholic.
Leonid Feodorov was born in St Petersburg in 1879 to a Russian Orthodox family. In 1902 he left the Orthodox seminary, went to Rome and became a Catholic. He was ordained in 1911 as a Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite, which uses the same liturgy as the Orthodox Church, and became a monk.
Back in Russia he was exiled to Siberia during the First World War. In 1917 he was named exarch, the head, of the small community of Russian Byzantine Catholics. The Soviet regime arrested him in 1923 and sent him to the Solovki prison camp on the White Sea, where Catholic and Orthodox priests held prayers and discussions together. He died near Kirov in 1935. John Paul II beatified him in 2001.
Leonid Feodorov was beatified in 2001.