Tikhon of Moscow
Patriarch of Moscow
Died when: 60 years 66 days (722 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
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, 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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