Exarch Fyodorov

Truth and Darkness [27:23]

Leonid Fyodorov himself came to realize the truth of the Universal Church. For the realization of this ideal, when 23 years old he left Russia and went to Italy and converted to Catholicism. He studied in Italy and Switzerland, becoming a Greek Catholic priest and later taking monastic vows.

Thanks to the religious freedom of early 1917, he could be named Exarch, the head of the Eastern Rite Catholics in Russia. But after the Bolshevik revolution he suffered serious persecution and banishment, till his death of exhaustion in 1934.

On June 27, 2001 in L’viv, Pope John Paul II beatified Exarch Leonid Fyodorov.

Length of the entire movie: 27:23 min