What is Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow?
{{Infobox saint |name=Saint Tikhon, 11th Patriarch of Moscow and of All Russia |image=Tikhon of Moscow.jpg |titles=Confessor, Patriarch of Moscow, Apostle to America |birth_date={{Birth date|1865|1|31|df=y}} |birth_place= Klin (Toropets district, Pskov Province), [[Russian Empire]] |death_date={{death date and age|1925|4|7|1865|1|31|df=y}} |death_place= [[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR|Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]], [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] |venerated_in=[[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy]], [[Episcopal Church (USA)]] |canonized_date={{plainlist| *{{OldStyleDate|1 November|1981|19 October}}, [[New York City]] by the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] *{{OldStyleDate|9 October|1989|26 September}}, Moscow by the [[Moscow Patriarchate]]}} |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |major_shrine=[[Donskoy Monastery]], Moscow |feast_day={{plainlist| *{{OldStyleDateNY|7 April|25 March}} (Repose){{indent|5}}also [[Episcopal Church (USA)]] *{{OldStyleDateNY|9 October|26 September}} (Glorification)}} }} Saint '''Tikhon of Moscow''' was a {{broken wikt link|patriarch|patriarch}} of [[Moscow]] in the beginning of the [[Soviet Union]]. His name, before he became a [[saint]], was ''Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin''({{lang-ru|Василий Иванович Беллавин}}). He was [[Canonization|canonized]] by the Synod of Bishops. It is possible that the character of the elder Zosimov in the Russian novel ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' was influenced by him. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tikhon of Moscow, Patriarch}} [[Category:1865 births]] [[Category:1925 deaths]] [[Category:Patriarchs of Moscow]] [[Category:Russian Orthodox saints]]