Chosen for His People: A Biography of Patriarch Tikhon
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781942699026
Pub Date: July 2015
Imprint: Holy Trinity Seminary Press
Illustrations: 5 Color Photos, 1 B/W Photo
Price: £15.99
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St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow (Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin, 1865Ð1925) is one of the most important figures of both Russian and Orthodox Church history in the 20th century. Yet 90 years after his death this remains the only complete biography ever published in the English language. It has now been updated and revised with a new preface and bibliography, together with revised and additional endnotes, by Scott M. Kenworthy. The biography reveals a picture of a man whom no one expected to be chosen as Patriarch, yet who nevertheless humbly accepted the call of God and the people to guide the Church during the most turbulent of times as it faced both internal upheavals and external persecution. Both specialists and general readers will become better acquainted with St. Tikhon through this modest but carefully crafted monograph.