Metropolitan Leo (or Lev, Russian: Лев, secular name Nikolay Lvovich Tserpitsky, Николай Львович Церпицкий; born April 13, 1946) is the current Metropolitan of Novgorod and Staraya Russa. He was named Bishop of Novgorod the Great and Staraya Russa on July 20, 1990, and elevated to the archiepiscopal dignity on February 25, 1995, and to the metropolitan dignity in January 2012.[1]
- ^ "Lev Mitropolit Novgorodskii i Starorussiskii," on the website of the Russian Orthodox Church, http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/38914.html