Tikhon of Moscow

Saint Tikhon of Moscow was the first and only legitimately elected Patriarch of Moscow since the abolition of the patriarchate by Tsar Peter the Great.

After the martyric death of St. Tikhon, Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) would go on to abuse his position as deputy locum tenens of the patriarch to establish the heresy named after him. Justified under Ukaz 362 of St. Tikhon, the Russian Catacomb Church would sever communion with Met. Sergius and establish independent church structures as and where possible. This ultimately forms much of the basis for contemporary True Orthodox church organisation.

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