Remembering Metropolitan Leonty on the 150th Anniversary of His Birth
On August 20, 2026, the Church prayerfully remembered the 150th anniversary of the birth of His Eminence Metropolitan Leonty (Turkevich), a deeply beloved hierarch and luminary in the history of Orthodoxy in North America.
Born Leonid Turkevich in Kremenetz, Volhynia, in 1876, the future Metropolitan came to came to the United States in 1906 at the request of Saint Tikhon, then Archbishop of the Aleutians and North America. Over six decades of service to the Church on this continent, he served as priest, seminary rector, educator, editor, bishop, and ultimately Primate of the North American Metropolia from 1950 until his repose in 1965.
