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St. Tikhon of Moscow
Also known as: Patriarch Tikhon
Holy Hierarch Tikhon, pray to God for us.
Brief Life First to organize Orthodoxy in America, later patriarch under persecution.
Feast Day(s) Apr 7; Glorification Oct 9
Rank / Type
HierarchConfessor
Church Status
Clergy - BishopMonastic
Family / Life State
Single Adult
Commonly Asked Intercessions
Missionary Work
Life Experience
PersecutionImprisonment
Virtue
PatienceCourageFaithMeekness
Region of Origin
Rus' / RussiaNorth America
Tradition of Veneration
RussianNorth AmericanPan-Orthodox
Era Modern
Century 20th
Gender Male
Notes Bridge between America and Russia.
Sources Synaxarion