Bishop Tikhon (in the world Trifon Grigorievich Sukhov ; February 1880 , the village of Kotelnichi (Kotelnitsa), Balakhninsky district , Nizhny Novgorod province - December 15, 1937 ) - bishop of the Old Orthodox Church of Christ (Old Believers accepting the Belokrinitsky hierarchy) , bishop of Tomsk and Altai .
| Tikhon | |
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| Birth name | Trifon G. Sukhov |
| Birth | February 1880 Kotelnichi village (Kotelnitsy), Balakhninsky district, Nizhny Novgorod province |
| Death | December 15, 1937 |
Biography
Born in 1880 in the village of Kotelnitsy (now the Nizhny Novgorod region ).
In the rank of deacon, he was appointed Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod Innocent (Usov) in December 1905 to the parish of the city of Minusinsk.
In 1908 he was ordained a priest to the community of the city of Tomsk . He graduated from Pastoral courses in Petrograd , organized by Bishop Gerontius (Lakomkin) .
In 1909, when Fr. Trifon was widowed; in Tomsk, the laying of the new Assumption Church began on Aleksey-Aleksandrovskaya Street (now Yakovleva ).
In 1920, by the majority of parishes of the Tomsk-Altai diocese he was elected a candidate for bishop, but Tryphon was in no hurry to agree and entrusted fate with a lot: "Fr. Tryphon prayed for a week and wrote 3 lots, and laid on the throne. Amph "ilochi" took one and gave him as an indication of God, and found: "The Lord calls." There was one empty, the second “Wait”. ”
On October 30, Bishop Amfilohiy (Zhuravlev) in the Novo-Arkhangelsk Skete tonsured Trifon Sukhov as a monk with the name Tikhon .
On December 6, 1920, Bishop Amphilochius, after the sole ordination of monk Ioannikiy (Ivanov) , tonsured with Tikhon, as bishop of the Perm-Tobolsk pulpit, and with him consecrated Monk Tikhon to the bishop of Tomsk-Altai. As Bishop Amphiloschius reported in a letter, Bishop Tikhon "on the same day performed the rank of entry into the diocese and took over the reins of the Tomsk-Altai diocese" [1] .
In 1922, Bishop Tikhon took part in the Deanery Congress in Semipalatinsk Region , where he was elected as a candidate for bishop, Archpriest from Yekaterinburg Andrei Berdyshev (later Bishop Andrian).
In 1922, he appealed to Siberian parishes with a call for “loyalty” to the authorities. [2] .
In 1923, he participated in a deanery congress in Minusinsk , at which the monk Arseny (Davydov) was approved as a candidate for bishop (later bishop Minusinsky and Uryankhaysky). In 1923, Bishop Tikhon was arrested (along with Tomsk priest Pavel Morozov) and was escorted to Novosibirsk.
From 1925 to 1926 he led the Far Eastern Diocese .
Until 1932 he lived in Tomsk, from April 1932 he was in an illegal situation, lived in Old Believers' hermitages in the Narym taiga.
In 1933 he was arrested. Sentenced to 7 years in prison . He was accused of being an active member of the Old Believer counter-revolutionary rebel organization "Siberian Brotherhood", the purpose of which was "... to paralyze atheistic teachings, to oppose the" Brotherhood "to the Communist Party, the Komsomol." In this case, starting in 1932, 283 people were prosecuted and sentenced to different sentences.
On November 26, 1937, he was again arrested by a trio of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the DCK under Art. 58-10 and sentenced to VMN. Shot on December 15, 1937.
He was canonized in September 2003 together with the bishop-martyr Amphilochius (Zhuravlev) in September 2003 as a locally revered saint [2] .