Bishop
Saint Leonid of Mariinsk (in the world Lavrenty Evthikhievich Antoshchenko) was born on August 6, 1872, in the village of Malo-Nikolaevka of the Yekaterinoslav province. After graduating from the seminary, on May 30, 1896, he entered the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra, and on May 26, 1898, he was appointed as a novice. On July 30, 1904, he was transferred to the Moscow Chudov Monastery, where on August 8, 1905, he was tonsured into monasticism with the name Leonid. On October 16 of the same year, he was ordained as hierodeacon. In March 1910, he was appointed as the head of the St. Petersburg representation of the Beijing Spiritual Mission. On March 26, 1910, Bishop Innocent appointed him as the head of the representation. In 1911, he was entrusted with the construction of the church of the mission in St. Petersburg, which was consecrated in 1913. In 1914, he served the Liturgy in a temporary church in Otradnoye. In 1919, he became the rector of the parish church in Petrograd. In 1922, he was arrested and spent a month in custody. On June 26, 1927, he was ordained as bishop of Pereslavl-Zalessky. In 1930, he was arrested on false charges, sentenced to 5 years of deprivation of liberty, and sent to the Pinyug camps. After being released early in 1932, he was appointed bishop of Aleksandrovsk. In 1937, he was arrested again and placed in the Yoshkar-Ola prison, where he was sentenced to execution on December 29, 1937. The sentence was carried out on January 7, 1938, on the day of the Nativity of Christ.
