Tikhon (Stepanov)
Tichon ( Russian Тихон , born Nikolai Wladimirowitsch Stepanow , Николай Владимирович Степанов ; born March 2, 1963 in Kostroma ; † October 20, 2010 in Arkhangelsk ) was a Russian Orthodox bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholm .
Life
Nikolai Stepanov was born the son of the priest Vladimir Stepanov. After serving in the Soviet Army from 1982 to 1984, he studied at the Leningrad Theological Seminary from 1984 to 1986 and from 1986 to 1990 at the Leningrad Spiritual Academy and at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York. On August 28, 1991 he received the usual monastic tonsure from Bishop Manuel of Petrozavodsk and Olonetz ; a day later he was ordained a deacon . He was ordained a priest on September 1, 1991 and elevated to the rank of abbot on June 16, 1992 .
In 1991 he became secretary of the diocesan administration in Petrozavodsk and personal secretary of Bishop Manuel. Since 1995 he has been chairman of the local council and the rector of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Petrozavodsk. He also became a member of the ad hoc working group on the planning of the revival of the Orthodox Mission of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Diocese of Petrozavodsk. On December 27, 1995, at the meeting of the Holy Synod, he was elected Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory. In 1996 he was appointed archimandrite . In 1996, Patriarch Alexius II was ordained bishop in Moscow Cathedral . Since 2001 he has been the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Architectural Heritage of St. Andrei Rublev ( Андрей Рублёв ). In 2002 he was elected deputy chairman of the joint working group for cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway .
Nikolai Stepanov died on the night of October 19-20, 2010.
Honors
In 2001 he was honored with the medal of the " Order of Merit for the Fatherland " ( Медаль ордена "За заслуги перед Отечеством" ). In the same year he received the order of the venerable Sergius of Radonezh .
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| SURNAME | Tikhon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Тихон (Russian name); Stepanow, Nikolai Wladimirowitsch (secular name); Степанов, Николай Владимирович (secular name, Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Orthodox clergyman, Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kostroma , Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 2010 |
| Place of death | Arkhangelsk |