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Leonid Gorbachov
Metropolitan Leonid (secular name Leonid Eduardovich Gorbachov, Russian: Леонид Эдуардович Горбачёв; born 26 October 1968, Stavropol) is a retired bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He holds the title "Metropolitan of Klin". Former Patriarchal Exarch of Africa (2021-2023).
He was born on 26 October 1968, in Stavropol. Since 1970, his family lived in Krasnodar. He graduated from high school in 1985. In 1985–1986, he was a laboratory assistant. During those same years, he was the sexton of St. George's Church in Krasnodar. In 1986-1988 he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR.
In 1988–1989, he was a reader-singer of St. George's Church in Krasnodar and subdeacon of Bishop Isidore (Kirichenko) of Krasnodar and Kuban. In 1989-1992 he studied at the Leningrad Theological Seminary.
On 8 April 1990, he was ordained a deacon. On June 18, 1990, he was tonsured a monk, and on 8 October 1990, he was ordained a hieromonk. In 1990-1997 he was a full-time cleric of St. Catherine Cathedral in Krasnodar. In 1995-1997 he was the sacristan of same cathedral.
Since 1997, he has been an employee within the Moscow Patriarchate of the Synodal Department for Relations with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies (in Moscow).
From March to September 1998, he was on a business trip as part of the Russian separate airborne brigade of the contingent of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, as he later recalled, he had to face "unprecedented blatant injustice against an Eastern Orthodox people".
From October 1998 to September 2002, he studied at the Theological Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, was a minor cleric of the Russian lower Church of the Great Martyr Panteleimon in Agios Pandeleimonas in Athens, Greece.
Since October 2002, he has been an employee of the Secretariat of Inter-E. Orthodox Relations of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate.
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Leonid Gorbachov
Metropolitan Leonid (secular name Leonid Eduardovich Gorbachov, Russian: Леонид Эдуардович Горбачёв; born 26 October 1968, Stavropol) is a retired bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He holds the title "Metropolitan of Klin". Former Patriarchal Exarch of Africa (2021-2023).
He was born on 26 October 1968, in Stavropol. Since 1970, his family lived in Krasnodar. He graduated from high school in 1985. In 1985–1986, he was a laboratory assistant. During those same years, he was the sexton of St. George's Church in Krasnodar. In 1986-1988 he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR.
In 1988–1989, he was a reader-singer of St. George's Church in Krasnodar and subdeacon of Bishop Isidore (Kirichenko) of Krasnodar and Kuban. In 1989-1992 he studied at the Leningrad Theological Seminary.
On 8 April 1990, he was ordained a deacon. On June 18, 1990, he was tonsured a monk, and on 8 October 1990, he was ordained a hieromonk. In 1990-1997 he was a full-time cleric of St. Catherine Cathedral in Krasnodar. In 1995-1997 he was the sacristan of same cathedral.
Since 1997, he has been an employee within the Moscow Patriarchate of the Synodal Department for Relations with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies (in Moscow).
From March to September 1998, he was on a business trip as part of the Russian separate airborne brigade of the contingent of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, as he later recalled, he had to face "unprecedented blatant injustice against an Eastern Orthodox people".
From October 1998 to September 2002, he studied at the Theological Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, was a minor cleric of the Russian lower Church of the Great Martyr Panteleimon in Agios Pandeleimonas in Athens, Greece.
Since October 2002, he has been an employee of the Secretariat of Inter-E. Orthodox Relations of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate.
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