Patriarch Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in Revolutionary Russia

FAIN: FT-270065-20

Scott M. Kenworthy
Miami University (Oxford, OH 45056-1846)

A biography of Patriarch Tikhon Bellavin (1865-1925), head of the Orthodox Church during the Russian Revolution.

This project will be the first complete biography of Patriarch Tikhon Bellavin (1865-1925), who became head of the Orthodox Church in the midst of the Russian Revolution and played a decisive role in guiding the Church in the face of a militantly hostile atheist regime. Based on extensive new primary sources, it follows his career in the Russian Empire and in North America before 1917, which played a formative role on Tikhon as a leader, as well as his role as head of the church from 1917 onward. Although the Soviet authorities labeled him a counter-revolutionary and repeatedly arrested him, Tikhon sought to defend the Church against the Bolsheviks’ assaults against it while at the same time was open to negotiation in a way that prepared the church for surviving in the hostile environment.

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ST. TIKHON CONDEMNS RACISM DURING EPIDEMIC (Blog Post)
Title: ST. TIKHON CONDEMNS RACISM DURING EPIDEMIC
Author: Scott Kenworthy
Abstract: Then bishop of the Orthodox Church in North America, Tikhon Bellavin visited remote regions of Alaska in 1900 just as a terrible pandemic struck Alaska natives. When he returned to San Francisco, he delivered a powerful sermon condemning racist indifference toward the suffering of natives during the pandemic.
Date: 6/29/2020
Primary URL: https://publicorthodoxy.org/2020/06/29/st-tikhon-condemns-racism/
Primary URL Description: St. Tikhon condemns racism during pandemic.
Secondary URL: https://publicorthodoxy.org/ru/2020/06/29/св-тихон-осуждает-расизм/
Secondary URL Description: Sv. Tikhon osuzhdaet rasizm vo vremia epidemii (Russian translation of the Blog post).
Blog Title: St. Tikhon Condemns Racism During Pandemic (Public Orthodoxy)
Website: Public Orthodoxy

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