VASILII IVANOVICH BELAVIN

(Saint Tikhon | Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow)


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Vasilii Ivanovich Belavin. head of the church. Several years later when he had been ousted by pro Communist clerics, the then Metropolitan removed the curse and excommunication. Because he was responsible for the Russian Orthodox Church in North America he developed the complementary title of ‘Enlightener Of America’


Vasilii Ivanovich Belavin. head of the church. Because he was responsible for the Russian Orthodox Church in North America, he developed the complementary title of ‘Enlightener Of America’


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Tikhon of Moscow (Russian: Тихон Московский, 31 January 1865 – 7 April 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.