Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
1865 – 1925 Russian Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
The patriarch who led the Church against Bolshevik anti-religious persecution.
- Religion
- Russian Orthodox; the first restored Patriarch since Peter the Great, who led the Church's resistance to Bolshevik persecution.
- Affiliations
- Russian Orthodox Church; elected Patriarch in 1917; anathematized the Bolsheviks and was later imprisoned.
Tikhon was elected Patriarch in 1917, the office having been vacant since Peter the Great abolished it. He condemned the Bolsheviks and their seizure of church property, and he was arrested and pressured for years. His death in 1925 came amid a fierce state campaign against religion.
Connections
- rival of Vladimir Lenin — Led church resistance to Lenin's regime and its anti-religious campaign.