Background
Tikhon Nikolayevich Nikitin was born on August 12, 1867 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Church leader spiritual writer
Tikhon Nikolayevich Nikitin was born on August 12, 1867 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Tikhon Nikolayevich graduated from the Voronezh Theological Seminary in 1889 and from the Moscow Theological Academy in 1903.
From 1891 Tikhon Nikolayevich was the priest in the Voronezh diocese. In 1904 he became the Catechist of the Feodosiya Teacher's Institute. In 1904-1907 he worked as the priest of the Tikhvino-Onufrievskaya church in Voronezh. He was an Abbot of the Moscow Znamensky Monastery (1908-1913). Bishop of Verey, Vicar of the Moscow Diocese (1913-1917), at the same time the abbot of the Moscow Pokrovsky Monastery.
From the beginning of 1917, Bishop of Ust-Medveditsky and Khopersky Districts, from October 1917, Bishop of Sevastopol. In December 1917, Tikhon Nikolayevich was retired, lived in the Belogorsk monastery of the Voronezh diocese. In 1918-1919 he served in Voronezh together with Archbishop Tikhon (Nikanorov), sanctified the Vladimir Cathedral (April 1918), and participated in the burial of Archbishop Tikhon (March 1920).
In 1922-1931 Tikhon Nikolayevich was interested in the Renovationist Church. Since 1931, he was in canonical communion with the deputy Locum Tenens of the patriarchal throne, Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky). Bishop of Ural (1931-1932), Vyazemsk (1933-1936). Archbishop of Smolensk and Vyazemsk.
