Tikhon traveled widely in the United States and participated in many ecumenical events; in 1900 he sat on a bishop’s throne at the consecration of the Episcopal Bishop of Fond du Lac and would have helped in the laying-on-of-hands, but TEC’s House of Bishops said no. In 1917 he became Patriarch of Moscow, endured the Russian Revolution and was imprisoned for a year by the Soviets.
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