Tikhon
- January 6, 2024
- Priest
Quick Facts
Tikhon Biography
| Name | Tikhon |
| Birthday | Jul 2 |
| Birth Year | 1958 |
| Place Of Birth | Moscow |
| Home Town | Moscow |
| Birth Country | Russia |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
Tikhon is one of the most popular and richest Priest who was born on July 2, 1958 in Moscow, Moscow, Russia. Tikhon organized a number of historical exhibitions in Moscow Manege. The last one “My History. 20th Century” was devoted to the 1930-1940s in Russia and often talked about supposed positive contributions by Joseph Stalin. The critics considered the exhibition as an “apology of the Orthodox Christian Stalinism”.
In the first Perestroika years he published a few polemic articles including “Ne uchastvuyte v delakh t’my” (Do not participate in the business of the darkness) originally published in the Zhurnal Moskovskoy Patrirakhii [ru] and republished more than one hundred times by different publishers. The work criticized then emerged practice of occult healing. His article “The Church and the State” was published by Literaturnaya Rossiya [ru] in November 1990. In the article Shevkunov argued that emerging Russian democracy would definitely act against Russian Orthodox Church.
In 1993 Tikhon was appointed the head of the newly created Moscow Metochion of the Pskov-Caves Monastery. The building of the Metochion was previously occupied by the collective of Orthodox Christian thinker and missionary Georgy Kochetkov [ru] . Tikhon later criticized Kochetkov and his followers for their “modernism”.
In 1995 the Metochion was reformed into the restored Sretensky Stauropegic Monastery and on 8 September 1995 Patriarch Alexy II ordained Tikhon into a Hegumen.
In 1986 he was transferred to the Publishing Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, where he worked under Metropolitan Pitirim (Nechayev) [Wikidata ] . His first appointment was connected with commemoration of the millennium anniversary Baptizing of Rus.
Tikhon Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Priest |
| House | Living in own house. |
Tikhon is one of the richest Priest from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tikhon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Metropolitan Tikhon (Russian: Митрополит Тихон , secular name Georgiy Alexandrovich Shevkunov, Russian: Георгий Александрович Шевкунов ; born 2 July 1958 in Moscow) is a bishop of Russian Orthodox Church and a popular writer. He is the Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov and was in 2015–2018 the head of the Western Vicariat [ru] of Moscow city. Superior of the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow from 1995 to 2018. Bishop Tikhon is often referred as the personal confessor of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In 1982 Georgy Shevkunov graduated from the Screenwriter school of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. The same year he accepted Christianity, was baptized and moved to the Pskov-Caves Monastery first as a toiler then as a novice. His confessor was Archimandrite John Krestiankin.
On 2 July 1991 in Donskoy Monastery Georgiy Shevkunov took monastic vows assuming the name Tikhon after Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow. At the same time he was ordained into a Hierodeacon and in a month he was ordained into a Hieromonk.
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Who is Tikhon Dating?
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Since 22 March 2011 he is a member of the Supreme Council of the Russian Orthodox Church [ru] .
Facts & Trivia
Tikhon Ranked on the list of most popular Priest. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Tikhon celebrates birthday on July 2 of every year.
Tikhon is considered to be an ultra-conservative, but it is claimed that he never published anything ‘xenophobic.’ However, while leading a commission investigating the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, Tikhon stated in 2017 that “many members of the commission believe it was a ritual murder that held special significance for Bolshevik commander Yakov Yurovsky,” the commander of the execution squad who was of Jewish birth. This description fits the longstanding formula of blood libels used as pretexts for pogroms and other atrocities against Jews in Europe. Tikhon denied accusations that his accusations were antisemitic or that they referred to Jews at all.
What happened Patriarch Tikhon?
Death. In 1924 the patriarch fell ill and was hospitalized. On 5 April 1925, he served his last Divine Liturgy, and died two days later, 25 March (OS)/7 April, the Feast of the Annunciation. He was buried on 12 April in the winter church of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.
Who is Saint Tikhon?
Saint Tikhon, Russian Svyatoy Tikhon, original name Vasily Ivanovich Belavin, (born Dec. 19 [Dec. 31, New Style], 1865, Toropets, near Pskov, Russia—died April 7, 1925, Moscow; canonized Oct. 9, 1989), patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.