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	Tikhon of Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tikhon was consecrated Bishop of Lublin on October 19, 1897.
		On August 15, 1917, Archbishop Tikhon was raised to the dignity of Metropolitan of Moscow.
		Tikhon openly condemned the killings of the tsar's family in 1918, and protested against violent attacks by the Bolsheviks on the Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tikhon_of_Moscow (714 words)

	Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, WA
		Although the exact circumstances of Saint Tikhon's death are not clear, in the opinion of Bishop Maximus of Serpukhov, who himself died a martyr's death in 1930, he was "unquestionably poisoned".
		At his departure, Saint Tikhon made the sign of the Cross thrice, pronouncing the words, "Glory to You, O God!" Because of the many unspeakable sufferings he endures as Patriarch, he is honoured as a Confessor.
		The most holy Patriarch, venerable Tikhon, the Confessor of the Faith, has gained from Christ the crown of life; for he did labour with godly zeal and strove till death in defence of the Church of Christ.
	home.iprimus.com.au /xenos/tikhon.html (372 words)

	OCA - Biography of St. Tikhon of Moscow
		Vasily Ivanovich Belavin, the future Saint Tikhon, was born on January 19, 1865 into the family of Ioann Belavin, a rural priest of the Toropetz district of the Pskov diocese.
		Archimandrite Tikhon was consecrated Bishop of Lublin on October 19, 1897, and returned to Kholm for a year as Vicar Bishop of the Kholm Diocese.
		Tikhon, the eleventh Patriarch of Moscow, was primate of the Russian Church for seven and a half years.
	www.oca.org /HSbiotikhon.asp?SID=7 (1984 words)

	Tikhon of Moscow - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tikhon (né Vasily Ivanovich Belavin) was born on January 19, 1865.
		Tikhon openly condemned the killings of Czar's family in 1918 and protested against violent attacks by the Bolsheviks on the Church.
		In 1989, Patriarch Tikhon was glorified by the Church of Russia.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Tikhon_of_Moscow (839 words)

	Tikhon Of Moscow
		Saint Tikhon of Moscow (January 19, 1865 – April 7, 1925), born '''Vasily Ivanovich Belavin''' (Ð’Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¸Ð¹ ÐÐ²Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ Ð‘ÐµÐ»Ð°Ð²Ð¸Ð½ in Russian), was the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union, 1917 through 1925.
		Tikhon openly condemned the killings of the tsar 's family in 1918, and protested against violent attacks by the Bolsheviks on the Church.
		Patriarch Tikhon issued several messages to the believers, in which he stated in part that he is ''"no longer an enemy to the Soviet power"''.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Tikhon_of_Moscow (763 words)

	TIKHON, SAINT, ENLIGHTENER OF AMERICA
		Tikhon consecrated two St. Nicholas Churches, the first, a renovated building at 299 Pacific St. in Brooklyn for the Syro-Arabs on Sunday, Oct. 27, 1902, and the second, the long-delayed future cathedral, for the Russians, on Nov. 10th.
		Tikhon was in the bloom of his archpastoral talents, adorned by his administrative experience in America." The ancient archdiocese had declined sharply since the Revolution of 1905, and he managed to improve the religious and political situation significantly.
		Tikhon was transferred to a most sensitive position in the Archdiocese of Vilna, capital of the Province of Lithuania, a veritable hotbed of Catholicism and Uniatism.
	www.antiochian.org /Bishops/tikhon.htm (8571 words)

	Patriarch Tikhon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When, in 1917, Patriarch Tikhon accepted his election to the patriarchal throne, he did so in humble submission to the will of God, knowing full well that he was being handed a bitter cup: the throne was his Cross and the white patriarch's hood - his crown of thorns.
		For 7 years he daily endured the suffering which fell to him as to the head of the Russian Church during one of the most difficult periods in all of her history.
		Although he had the opportunity, and was even urged to flee abroad for his own safety, the Patriarch refused to abandon his flock, and for this he was rewarded by the undying love and devotion of the Russian people who felt in the Patriarch "one of their kind".
	www.roca.org /OA/14/14u.htm (251 words)

	Lives of the Saints
		The holy Patriarch Tikhon was born in 1865 in the Pskov province, in the family of a priest.
		After becoming a monastic and gradually reaching the rank of archbishop, St. Tikhon was an industrious and beloved pastor of several archbishoprics before being elected to the Moscow cathedra.
		Tikhon saved the Church from the Renovationist heresy, anathematized the Church’s persecutors and clearly showed the falsehood of entering into a compromise with the godless authorities.
	www.holy-transfiguration.org /library_en/saints_tikhon.html (250 words)

	Chapter 10. Moscow. Reed, John. 1922. Ten Days That Shook the World
		Moscow is real Russia, Russia as it was and will be; in Moscow we would get the true feeling of the Russian people about the Revolution.
		At the head of the wide, formal stairway, whose walls were plastered with announcements of committee-meetings and addresses of political parties, we passed through a series of lofty ante-rooms, hung with red-shrouded pictures in gold frames, to the splendid state salon, with its magnificent crystal lustres and gilded cornices.
		Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow, was soon to excommunicate the Soviets…;.
	www.bartleby.com /79/10.html (4123 words)

	Orthodox Icon of St. Tikhon Patriarch of Moscow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tikhon began life as Vassily Bellavin, born on January 19, 1865 in Pskov.
		Tikhon was released from prison, but in frail health.
		All of the church bells in Moscow rang on the day of his funeral and the streets overflowed with over one million of the faithful who came openly, and in defiance of the godless regime, to grieve the passing of their beloved shepherd.
	www.comeandseeicons.com /mgo33.htm (258 words)

	St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Orthodox Monastery - Where Saints Have Walked
		Tikhon of Moscow - Founder of the Monastery
		Tikhon, the Patriarch of Moscow was, in 1906, Archbishop Tikhon of New York and was primate of the Orthodox Church in North America.
		Tikhon (canonized 1990) was a principal figure in Orthodox Church history during the 20th century.
	sttikhonsmonastery.org /where_saints_have_walked.html?PHPSESSID=37bd802ff50a095c63c092d21f4aedf3 (644 words)

	St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Orthodox Monastery - St. Tikhon of Moscow - Life of the Saint
		Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and Apostle to America was born as Vasily Ivanovich Belavin on January 19, 1865 into the family of Ioann Belavin, a rural priest of the Toropetz district of the Pskov diocese.
		Tikhon did not change after becoming the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
		For nearly seventy years, St. Tikhon's relics were believed lost, but in February 1992, they were discovered in a concealed place in the Donskoy Monastery.
	sttikhonsmonastery.org /st_tikhon_moscow_life.html?PHPSESSID=a1ec110e0c4c7f45465588d1ad926435 (2001 words)

	The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia - Official Website
		Nevertheless, the Soviet regime arrested the Patriarch and organized demonstrations among the benighted masses and riffraff of the populace for the adoption everywhere of resolutions demanding the death sentence for the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
		Patriarch Tikhon was arrested and isolated from the populace.
		The gist of the discussion was a demand that Patriarch Tikhon convoke a Local Council, the purpose of which was supposedly to place the Church in good order, and that Patriarch divorce himself entirely from the administration of the Church until the Council reached a decision.
	www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws /synod/engdocuments/enart_patrtikhontrial.html (3467 words)

	Tikhon of Moscow
		Saint Tikhon of Moscow (January 19, 1865 – April 7, 1925), born Vasily Ivanovich Belavin, was the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union, 1917 through 1925.
		Under pressure, Patriarch Tikhon issued several messages to the believers, in which he stated in part that he is "no longer an enemy to the Soviet power".
		This canonisation process is generally considered an example of the thaw in Church-Soviet relations in the Glasnost era.
	www.satucket.com /lectionary/Tikhon.htm (550 words)

	St. Tikhon Russian Orthodox Church - Saint Tikhon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tikhon of Moscow and North America, as he is known, was missionary bishop to the vast numbers of Orthodox immigrants pouring into North America from all over the world at the turn of this century.
		In a death that was either caused or hastened by the Communist authorities, St. Tikhon fell asleep in the Lord in 1925.
		He was elevated to the rank of archimandrite, and by October 1897 (at age 32) Tikhon was consecrated Bishop of Liublin (Poland), the vicar of the Diocese of Kholm.
	www.st-tikhon.org /servlet/content/sainttikhon.html (2284 words)

	History of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
		His appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury had as a consequence the intervention of the English government in the fate of Patriarch Tikhon, and the latter was freed from prison when a trial against him had already been set and an accusation had been composed with the aim of obtaining the death penalty for him.
		After the death of Patriarch Tikhon, the Russian Church Abroad acknowledged the Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsk; however, he was soon arrested and banished by the Soviet regime for his firmness and his unwillingness to make concessions to the atheist regime.
		The Patriarchal Synod of Moscow, composed of bishops invited by Metropolitan Sergius, confirmed the latter as Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /ecumenism/roca_history.aspx (5961 words)

	THE INTERVIEW OF ARCHIMANDRITE TIKHON TO 'PROFILE' MAGAZINE
		Father Tikhon To begin with, the Russian state and Russian Orthodox Church were born almost simultaneously, and the Church became in essence the builder of the state.
		Moscow is full of rumours about your past as an actor.
		And those figures, who I didn't feel any respect to- for example, the founders of the socialist state and their successors, whose portraits hung in the students' lecture-halls,- everything was simple for them, as for a 5th grade pupil: there is no God and we all descend from Darwin.
	www.pravoslavie.ru /english/intarchimtikhon.htm (3113 words)

	The Estonian Church: Background Information
		In December 1917, by the decision of Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow and All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Veniamin of Petrograd and Ladoga and Bishop Arseny of Gdovsk consecrated Archimandrite Platon, who was Archpriest Pavel Kulbush before he took monastic vows, for service at the vicariate of Revel.
		With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexis I of Moscow and All Russia, the rite of acceptance was performed by Archbishop Gregory of Pskov and Porkhov on 6 March 1945 at St. Nicholas's Church in Tallin.
		The Moscow Patriarchate recognized the Orthodox Church in Estonia as the owner of all the church property in its territory.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/relnews/estonia2502.html (1434 words)

	History of Russian Orthodox Church
		Metropolitan Jonas, installed by the Council of Russian bishops in 1448, was given the title of Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia.
		The Council elected Metropolitan Tikhon of Moscow Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1917-1925).
		Tikhon of Moscow exerted every effort to calm the destructive passions kindled up by the revolution.
	russian-crafts.com /customs/russian-church-history.html (1624 words)

	ST.TIKHON, PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Patriarch Tikhon was probably the greatest martyr of the Russian Church during the period of its persecution by the communists.
		In 1917, Archbishop Tikhon was elected and confirmed by the Holy Synod to head the Moscow Diocese.
		The body of Patriarch Tikhon was buried in one of the Churches of the Donskoy Monastery.
	www.russianorthodoxchurchinexile.com /tikhon.html (482 words)

	ROCOR and OCA - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tikhon of Moscow issues Ukaz No. 362; first session of the Higher Church Administration outside borders of Russia.
		Patriarch St. Tikhon of Moscow, who had previously been a bishop in America, issued an ukaz on November 20, 1920, declaring that the bishops of the Church of Russia were to see to their own organization until such time as communication with the central church administration could be coherently organized again.
		Sergius, locum tenens of the patriarchal throne in Moscow, declared the "temporary self-government" of the Metropolia to be utterly void and schismatic, suspending Platon and establishing the Russian Exarchate of North America.
	orthodoxwiki.org /ROCOR_and_OCA (5285 words)

	Moscow Court Vindicates Jehovah's Witnesses After Years of Persecution
		Prosecutors in Moscow's northern district launched the case in early 1999 based on Russia's controversial 1997 law on religion, designed to limit the activities of foreign religious organizations.
		Russian Orthodox Deacon Andrei Kurayev, professor of theology at St. Tikhon's Institute and Moscow State University, insisted that it was clear that the Jehovah's Witnesses are "a totalitarian sect" that must be resisted strongly by the Orthodox Church's anti-missionary program.
		The Salvation Army's registration was rejected by the city of Moscow in 1999, and it has been struggling since then to have the decision overturned.
	www.molokane.org /molokan/Locations/FSU/JW_Case.htm (780 words)

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