Tikhon (Shevkunov)

Bishop Tikhon (Russian: Епископ Тихон, secular name Georgiy Alexandrovich Shevkunov, Russian: Георгий Александрович Шевкунов; born 2 July 1958 in Moscow) is a bishop of Russian Orthodox Church and a popular writer. He is the titular bishop of Yegoryevsk, vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and the head of the Western Vicariat () of Moscow city.. Superior of the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow. Bishop Tikhon is often referred as the personal confessor of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In 1982 Georgy Shevkunov graduated from the Screenwriter school of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. The same year he accepted Christianity, baptized and moved to the Pskov-Caves Monastery first as a toiler then as a novitiate. His confessor was Archimandrite John Krestiankin.

In 1986 he was transferred to the Publishing Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, where he worked under Metropolitan Pitirim (Nechayev) (). His first appointment was connected with commemoration of the millennium anniversary Baptizing of Rus.

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