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Irish Melkite, Leonid Feodorov by Alexey Yudin is available through interlibrary loan, but only in Russian. Hopefully, the English version of the book will be made available in the near future. latinmasstrad, Since you have written about Blessed Leonid for a traditional Roman Catholic publication, were you aware of an article about Blessed Leonid that appeared in a magazine by the Transapline Redemptorists? (This was years before they reunited with Rome.) It was a commemorative issue that contained articles and rare pictures of Blessed Leonid, Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, etc. An online version of the magazine was posted on their website, but is no longer available. It still can be viewed through the Wayback Machine website. You can read the article here: http://web.archive.org/web/20071218104949/www.redemptorists.org.uk/red/mag/russian1.htmWhat has really struck my interest is the following quote from that article: Sophia Likilariova, his biographer to whom we owe many of the details given above, says that the location of his grave is known. I don't know who this Sophia Likilariova is. I have not been able to find any books or articles wriiten by her on Blessed Leonid. If she knows the location of his grave, then I am very interested to know if there has been any effort to recover his relics. What a tremendous blessing for Russian Byzantine Catholics everywhere for the holy relics of this magnificent man to be recovered for veneration.
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latinmasstrad, Since you have written about Blessed Leonid for a traditional Roman Catholic publication, were you aware of an article about Blessed Leonid that appeared in a magazine by the Transapline Redemptorists? (This was years before they reunited with Rome.) It was a commemorative issue that contained articles and rare pictures of Blessed Leonid, Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, etc. An online version of the magazine was posted on their website, but is no longer available. It still can be viewed through the Wayback Machine website. You can read the article here: http://web.archive.org/web/20071218104949/www.redemptorists.org.uk/red/mag/russian1.htmWhat has really struck my interest is the following quote from that article: Sophia Likilariova, his biographer to whom we owe many of the details given above, says that the location of his grave is known. I don't know who this Sophia Likilariova is. I have not been able to find any books or articles wriiten by her on Blessed Leonid. If she knows the location of his grave, then I am very interested to know if there has been any effort to recover his relics. What a tremendous blessing for Russian Byzantine Catholics everywhere for the holy relics of this magnificent man to be recovered for veneration. Dear griego catolico, I originally learned of Blessed Leonid through the Transalpine Redemptorists' article. When I was writing my own article, I actually email the Transalpine Redemptorists asking for more information. They did not respond. As for the other matter, it would be indeed wonderful if Blessed Leonid's relics could be obtained and a truly great blessing if either of the biographies you referred to could be translated. I am currently trying to arrange for the translation into English of Deacon Vasili's biography from 1966. Finding someone with the time and ability is becoming really aggravating, however. In the Mother of God, latinmasstrad
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Thank you for those. And, belatedly, a blessed feast day of Blessed Leonid to all of our Russian Catholic brethren and all others who of us who revere his blessed memory.
Many years,
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We venerate an icon of the two exarchs of the Russian Catholic Church, Blessed Leonty and Blessed Klimenty at St. Michael's Chapel. There is also an icon of the Abba of the Russian Greek Catholic Church, Andrej Sheptitskyj in the altar. Through their holy prayers, O Savior, save us!
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We venerate an icon of the two exarchs of the Russian Catholic Church, Blessed Leonty and Blessed Klimenty at St. Michael's Chapel. There is also an icon of the Abba of the Russian Greek Catholic Church, Andrej Sheptitskyj in the altar. Through their holy prayers, O Savior, save us! Greek Catholic Church? Met. Andrej Sheptytsky? You might want to run that past the UGCC, if you dare.
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Russian Greek Catholic Church? Met. Andrej Sheptytsky? I believe Met. Andrej was a rather large supporter of the establishment of the Russian Greek Catholic exarchate and therefor is a father of Russian Greek Catholics. I believe he appointed his brother, the Blessed Clement, as the second exarch and I know that he knew and encouraged Blessed Leonid.
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Nelson is correct. Metropolitan Andrij was the ranking Eastern Catholic hierarch in that portion of the world and exercised a canonical omophor in regards to the fledgling Russian Greek-Catholic Church, including the small community of Katolicheskaja Stariobriodtsi (Russian Catholic Old Ritualists), as well as the Georgian Byzantine Catholic Church.
He was instrumental in obtaining papal assurances that each of these bodies be permitted to retain, unaltered, the liturgical praxis from which they had come. It is likely that he appointed Father Exarch Shio Batmanshivili, ultimately martyred for his Faith, as the Georgian Byzantine Exarch and he was closely allied to Blessed Leonid. In 1928, Metropolitan Andrej declsred that Old Believer rituals were to be preserved intact by the , Katolicheskaja Stariobriodtsi, forbidding any admixture of Synodal and pre-Nikonian praxis in their Divine Services.
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The statutes from the Russian Greek Catholic Sobor of 1917 over which Metropolitan +Andrey presided and at which Exarch +Leonid was present, allow a priest to celebrate either Old (Pre-Nikonian) or Synodal rite, but with no admixture of the two. Fr. Evstachy Susalev and Fr. Potapy Emlianov (whose cause for canonization has begun) were Russian Greek Catholic priests of the Old Rite.
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I found out there is another book on Blessed Leonid published in 2002. It's titled Leonid Feodorov by Alexey Yudin in Russian (ISBN 5-94270-018-4). There is mention of the book here: http://www.cathmos.ru/content/ru/publication-2009-12-16-16-47-32.html I used Google translate to read the article; it appears that the book has been translated into English and Italian. Has anyone seen and read this book? g-c, Yudin is a member of the editorial board of the Russian Catholic Encyclopedia, which was published a few years ago. I read the translated article, as well, and agree that it appears to say the book has been translated to English and Italian. But, I've hunted high and low and can't find any reference to its publication other than in Russian. Many years, Neil The book in Italian is available for purchase here [ unilibro.it]. Can't find it yet in English though.
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Nelson is correct. Metropolitan Andrij was the ranking Eastern Catholic hierarch in that portion of the world and exercised a canonical omophor in regards to the fledgling Russian Greek-Catholic Church, including the small community of Katolicheskaja Stariobriodtsi (Russian Catholic Old Ritualists), as well as the Georgian Byzantine Catholic Church.
He was instrumental in obtaining papal assurances that each of these bodies be permitted to retain, unaltered, the liturgical praxis from which they had come. It is likely that he appointed Father Exarch Shio Batmanshivili, ultimately martyred for his Faith, as the Georgian Byzantine Exarch and he was closely allied to Blessed Leonid. In 1928, Metropolitan Andrej declsred that Old Believer rituals were to be preserved intact by the , Katolicheskaja Stariobriodtsi, forbidding any admixture of Synodal and pre-Nikonian praxis in their Divine Services.
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Catholic Old Believers! Apparently that's too bizarre not to be true...are they now extinct though? Justin, Welcome to the forum. In about 1960, several sects of Old Ritualists, among which was a small community of Catholic Old Ritualists, emigrated to the United States and settled in the vicinity of Mt Angel Benedictine Monastery in Mt Benedict OR. Thanks to the pastoral concern of Abbott Damien Jentges, OSB, of blessed memory, all - Orthodox and Catholic, priested and priestless - were provided with extraordinary assistance and, in the case of the Catholics among them, pastoral care by Father Theodore (Palczynski) MIC and Monk Ambrose Moorman OSB, both also now of blessed memory. Without a presbyter after Father Theodore's repose, the Ctaholic Old Ritualist faithful were eventually assimilated back into the priested Orthodox Old Ritualist communities. Brother Ambrose continued to serve the communities secular needs and to live the life of a Catholic Old Ritualist until his repose about 2 years ago. You can read a brief history of the community in among the details of Brother Ambrose's repose here. A search of earlier threads on the topic of that community, principally by Fr Serge Keleher, of blessed memory, incognitus, Diak, and myself, should produce several. The +Monk Ambrose was, as far as anyone knows, the last surviving Catholic Old Ritualist in the US. Today, there remains a single Catholic Old Ritualist parish in Russia. You can read a very brief history of the Catholic Old Ritualists here and of the Oregon community here. Many years, Neil
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Diak is welcome to disagree on this point. But I wish that someone would translate Father Deacon Basil's book.
Fr. Serge Dear Father Serge, I would also be interested in a translation of Father Deacon Basil's book. If it were possible to obtain a copy of his book, I have friends who are able to translate Russian for me. Any advice on how to obtain it? In the Mother of God, latimasstrad It appears Father Deacon Basil's book is available online. Parts I & II [ fsspx-fsipd.lv] Part III [ fsspx-fsipd.lv] Google Translate appears to give a readable and understandable translation in English.
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There appears to be no evidence to support that Blessed Leonid was ever ordained a bishop. The photo below, which was published in Deacon Basil's biography and in other publications to support the belief that he was ordained a bishop, is actually NOT Blessed Leonid Feodorov. ![[Linked Image from sib-catholic.ru]](https://sib-catholic.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fedorow4-120x300.jpg) It is actually a photo of Bishop Theofan of Poltava taken when he was in Bulgaria in the 1920's. The exact same photo is used in an article about Bishop Theofan here: https://antimodern.ru/vladyka/This means that this other photo, used in Deacon Basil's biography and in other publications about Blessed Leonid, is really Bishop Theofan. ![[Linked Image from sib-catholic.ru]](https://sib-catholic.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fedorow3.jpg) In fact, Blessed Leonid had written a letter to Metropolitan Sheptytsky opposing his ordination as bishop.
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