Tikhon, Saint, Patriarch of Moscow and Enlightener of North America, 1865-1925.
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Tikhon, Saint, Patriarch of Moscow and Enlightener of North America, 1865-1925.
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Saint Tikhon, born in Russia as Basil Bellavin, served in churches in Russia and Poland, and was appointed Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in America in 1898. He was elevated to Archbishop in 1905, and returned to Russia in 1907, becoming Metropolitan of Moscow in 1917. At the All Russian Church Sobor (Council) in 1917, he was chosen as the first Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1721. In 1989 he was proclaimed a saint by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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