Papers, 1899-1907.

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Papers, 1899-1907.

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Correspondence with bishops, priests and parishes in the United States and Canada during Tikhon's tenure as administrator of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America.

.4 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6882910

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.

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Orthodox Church in America

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The Orthodox Church in America traces its beginnings to Russian Orthodox missionaries who settled in Alaska in 1794. Over the years the Church in America was administered as a diocese, and later an archdiocese, of the Russian Orthodox Church, and was known as the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. After the Russian Revolution, when regular communication with the church hierarchy in Moscow was impossible, the American Church declared itself temporarily autonomous. This de facto au...

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. ...