Laurent Cleenewerck is a professor of theology and international administration for EUCLID University, who also serves as faculty for Humboldt State University, Ukrainian Catholic University and the Saint Gregory Nazianzen Theological Institute. He was ordained as a presbyter in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (2004) and was later received (2007) in the Orthodox Church in America. He and his wife reside in Northern California where he is the rector of the historic Saint Innocent of Alaska Orthodox Church.