Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1876, Aug. 20 | Born Leonid Ieronimovich Turkevich, Kremenetz, Province of Volhynia, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) |
| 1889-1895 | Student, Theological Seminary of Volhynia, Province of Volhynia, Russia |
| 1896-1898 | Student, Kiev Theological Academy, Kiev, Russia |
| 1900 | Assistant to the dean, Ekaterinoslav Theological Seminary, Russia |
| 1902 | Teacher, Kursk Theological Seminary, Russia |
| 1905 | Married Anna Chervinsky (died 1925) Consecrated a deacon by Archbishop Antonii and a priest to the Saint Nikolaevskii Church, Kremenetz, Russia |
| 1906-1915 | Rector, Russian Orthodox Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, Minn. (seminary relocated to Tenafly, N.J., in 1912) |
| 1914-1930 | Editor, official church organ, The Russian American Orthodox Messenger (Russko-Amerikanskii Pravoslavnyi Viestnik) |
| 1915-1924 | Dean, St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral, New York, N.Y. |
| 1917-1918 | Represented the American diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Great Sobor (Church Council), Moscow, Russia |
| 1933 | Took the monastic vow with name Leontiĭ Consecrated Bishop of Chicago, Ill. |
| 1950-1964 | Metropolitan of all America and Canada of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America |
| 1965, May 14 | Died, Syosset, N.Y., buried at Saint Tikhon Cemetery, South Canaan, Pa. |