Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow Biography

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 (O.S.) he was selected the 11th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia,[Note 1] after a period of about 300 years of the Synodal rule in the ROC. He was canonised as a confessor by the ROC in 1989.