Background
Tikhonitskii, Viacheslav was born on March 22, 1873 in Orlov, Viatka Gouvernement. Son of a priest.
Tikhonitskii, Viacheslav was born on March 22, 1873 in Orlov, Viatka Gouvernement. Son of a priest.
Graduated from Viatka seminary, 1894. Graduated from Kazan’ Theological Academy, 1898.
Head of the church mission in Kirghizia, 1901. Bishop, 1907 (Grodno diocese). During World War I, evacuated to Moscow.
Returned to Grodno, 1918. Archbishop, 1923. Expelled by the Polish authorities, 1924. Stayed in Prague, then moved to France.
Archbishop in Nice, 1945-1959. Head of the Russian Orthodox diocese (West European Exarchate of the Oecumenical Patriarch) in France, 1946-1959.