Leonty Andreyevich Klimenko

Leonty Andreyevich Klimenko was born on June 18, 1889. He graduated from the Peschansky Public School in Kharkov Province.

On August 15, 1913, he became a novice at the Turkestan Archdiocesan House. On

April 26, 1914, he was appointed a psalmist at the Cathedral by Bishop Innocent.

He was ordained a deacon on September 22, 1914.

On October 1, 1915, he was awarded an archiepiscopal letter of commendation.

The date of his ordination as a priest is unknown.

He served as a priest in the village of Yevgenyevka, Vernensky Uyezd, Semirechensk Region (now the village of Malovodnoe).

He was accused by the regional Cheka of counter-revolutionary activities against Soviet power, mocking the RCP(b), storing ammunition, and refusing to grind grain for communists.

He was executed on the night of February 11-12, 1920, in the stanitsa of Talgar, Semirechensk Region, along with Protopriest John Granitov. Along with them, five more Orthodox Christians were executed.

They were buried in an unknown grave near the stanitsa of Talgar.

In August 2000, he was canonized as a saint in the Assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia and Kazakhstan by the Hierarchical Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church for general church veneration.