Archpriest Vadim Leonov.
Born December 27, 1966.
In 1984 he entered the Moscow Machine Tool Institute. After the fourth year, he was sent to study at the Budapest Technical University.
In 1993, he graduated from training at the Budapest Technical University and the Moscow Machine Tool Institute, having received diplomas of both universities with a degree in Robotics Systems and Complexes.
In 1993 he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary, after which he entered the Moscow Theological Academy in 1996.
On October 12, 1997, he took the rank of priest.
In June 2000, he graduated from MDA, defending with honors the candidate dissertation «The patristic doctrine of the human nature of our Lord Jesus Christ.»
From 2000 to 2015 he taught Christian anthropology at the Orthodox St. Tikhonovsky Humanitarian University.
In 2003, he was invited to the Sretensky Theological Seminary to the post of teacher of dogmatic theology. Currently, in addition to dogmatic theology, it is in the magistracy of the Pastor Anthropology course, in graduate school “Orthodox doctrine of a person in the context of natural science anthropological concepts”.
The author of several theological monographs, a number of articles in the Great Russian Encyclopedia and the Orthodox Encyclopedia.
He is the head of the department of theology of the Sretensky Theological Academy and a member of the Synodal Commission on Bioetics of the Russian Orthodox Church.