Leontius of Bulgaria
clergyman
b. 9th century · d. 10th century
3rd Archbishop of Ohrid (Bulgarian line)
Offices
Leontius was the first Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Very little is known of his life and tenure. He was mentioned as the first Patriarch of Bulgaria in the Book of Boril, written in 1211.
Related people
- John the Exarch succeeded · inferred
Places
- Bulgaria birth
- Veliki Preslav death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.