Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow


Tikhon of Moscow
Saint Tikhon of Moscow.
Confessor, Patriarch, Wonderworker
and Apostle to America
BornVasily Ivanovich Bellavin
(1865-01-31)31 January 1865
Klin, Toropets District, Pskov Province, Russian Empire
Died7 April 1925(1925-04-07) (aged 60)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Venerated inEastern Orthodoxy
Episcopal Church (USA)
Anglican Church in North America
Canonized
Major shrineDonskoy Monastery, Moscow
Feast
PatronageWestern Rite Orthodoxy[1]

Tikhon of Moscow (Russian: Тихон Московский, 31 January [O.S. 19 January] 1865 – 7 April [O.S. 25 March] 1925), born Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin (Russian: Василий Иванович Беллавин), was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). On 5 November 1917 (OS) he was selected the 11th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia,[Note 1] after a period of about 200 years of the Synodal rule in the ROC. He was canonised as a confessor by the ROC in 1989.

  1. ^ A Western Rite Orthodox Martyrology, (St. Gregory the Great Orthodox Church, Washington, D.C., 2015), p. 64.


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