Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

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Saint Tikhon of Moscow
Saint Tikhon of Moscow.
Confessor, Patriarch, Wonderworker and Apostle to America
Born	Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin (1865-01-31)31 January 1865 Klin, Toropets District, Pskov Province, Russian Empire
Died	7 April 1925(1925-04-07) (aged 60) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodoxy Episcopal Church (USA) Anglican Church in North America
Canonized	1 November [O.S. 19 October] 1981, New York City by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia 9 October [O.S. 26 September] 1989, Moscow by the Moscow Patriarchate
Major shrine	Donskoy Monastery, Moscow
Feast	7 April [O.S. 25 March] (Repose)      also Episcopal Church (USA), Anglican Church in North America 9 October [O.S. 26 September] (Glorification)
Patronage	Western 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.

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