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Leonid Viktorovich Svyatin was born on [[August 2]], 1893 at the Karagana Station in the Upper Urals region of the Orenburg Province of Russia Empire. His father was a [[deacon]]. Leonid began his theological education in the Orenburg Seminary, graduating in 1915. From Orenburg, he entered [[Kazan Theological Academy]]. In his second year of studies at Kazan he transferred was mobilized and sent to the Tbilisi Military School, in Georgia. After serving as With the start of the Bolshevik revolution, he left the military school and returned home. Again mobilized he became an official on the staff of General Belova of the White army. As the army officer for disintegrated from lack of material support and suffering a short time typhus epidemic, Leonid ended up in joined some survivors and entered China in about 1918 or 1919, and there joined the Russian Mission in Beijing.

In Beijing he joined the Russian Mission where he entered the monastery on the center's grounds.On [[June 30]], 1921, Leonid was [[tonsure]]d a [[monk]] with the name Victor at the Holy Dormition Monastery of the Beijing mission. On [[July 3]], 1921, Victor was [[ordination|ordained]] a hierodeacon, followed by ordination as a [[hieromonk]] on [[July 7]]. In August 1921, he entered the Oriental Faulty of the Far East Institute in Vladivostok. On [[August 10]], 1922, Fr. Victor was assigned to the Holy Protection of the Theotokos Church in Tiajin (Tientsin), China.

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