Tikhon of Kaluga [SEP] position held
Tikhon of Kaluga
Tikhon of Kaluga (died 16 June 1492) was a Russian abbot and saint. He grew up in Moscow and became a monk as a young man. He then moved to a forest near Medin in Kaluga, living in the hollow of an oak tree. It was on that spot that he founded (and became the first abbot of) a monastery, dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God (and then to Tikhon himself after his death).
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- Orthodox
- Theodosius of Kiev, co-founder of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the first monastery in Russia
- Theophan the Recluse, major 19th-century theologian who played an important role in translating the "Philokalia" from Church Slavonic into Russian
- Therapont of White Lake, founder of Ferapontov Monastery
- Tikhon of Kaluga, founder of the Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery in Kaluga
- Tikhon of Moscow, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, notable missionary, fighter against the so-called Living Church,