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'''Leontius II of Jerusalem''' was the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the [[Church of Jerusalem]] from 1170 to1190. Little is known about his activities while he was [[patriarch]].
Leontius was born in Tiberioupolis, on the Balkan frontier of the empire. He was [[tonsure]]d a [[monk]] in Constantinople, where he lived until he traveled through Patmos, Cyprus, to Crete. He became the [[hegumen]] of the [[Monastery of St. John the Theologian (Patmos, Greece)|Monastery of St. John the Theologian]] in Patmos.