Leonid Feodorov
Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church (1879-1935)
Feast: 27 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the city of Kirov in Russia, Blessed Leonid Feodorov, bishop and martyr, who held the office of Apostolic Exarch of the Russian Catholics of the Byzantine Rite and, under a regime hostile to religion, earned being a faithful disciple of Christ until death.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 7 March as a bishop and martyr, Apostolic Exarch of the Russian Byzantine-Rite Catholics, who died at Kirov.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Connected on this site
- Anna Abrikosova Venerable“Pius X, Andrey Sheptytsky, and Leonid Feodorov, one of the driving forces behind the canonical formation of the Russian Greek Catholic Church in 1917.” — Wikipedia
- Roman Martyrology, 7 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q1390781 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Leonid Feodorov (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.