Born Longinoz Solomonis dze Okropiridze (ლონგინოზ ოქროპირიძე) in Georgia, then part of Imperial Russia, he graduated from the Theological Academy of Kiev, Ukraine in 1888.

Ogropiridze served as an inspector of the schools operated by the Society for the Restoration of Orthodox Christianity in the Caucasus, an organization established by the Russian authorities.

From the 1890s to the 1910s he served as an archimandrite of the monasteries of Zedazeni, Khirsi and of St. John the Baptist in Georgia.

He also chaired the Commission for Correction of the Georgian Bible and was a member to the Georgia-Imeretia Synodal office.

Several months after the Russian occupation of Georgia, Leonid died on 11 June 1921, during a cholera epidemic.