<br><br>Metropolitan Tikhon (in the world Victor G. Dorovskikh; April 8, 1959, Voronezh) – Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov.<br><br>The elder brother of Metropolitan Daniel and the younger one is Hegumen Seraphim.<br>Biography<br>Born on April 8, 1959 in the city of Voronezh in a family of workers: „Dad worked as a mechanic, mother worked at a chemical plant all her life.” Baptized in infancy. According to my own recollections: “Childhood was fragmentarily: school, village, work. I remember how pennies were on our TV before a paycheck or an advance. Then everyone lived modestly, from paycheck to paycheck. In elementary school, I studied disgustingly until I got carried away with canoeing. Sport captured me so much that there was no time to prepare for the lessons. As a result, I became a diligent and disciplined student. ” “I was a pioneer and a Komsomol member. It seems to me that then there was no trace of communist ideas, just some framework and contours of the past remained. “<br><br>In 1974 he graduated from the 8th grade of secondary school number 41 in the city of Voronezh. In 1978 he graduated from the Voronezh Assembly College with a degree in electrical technician. According to her own recollections: “One of the teachers of the technical school where I from the Voronezh Polytechnic Institute. She talked so passionately about her alma mater that I entered the Faculty of Electrical Engineering there. ” In 1983 he graduated from the Voronezh Polytechnic Institute with a degree in electrical engineer with honors. In 1983-2003 he worked at the Voronezh branch of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Synthetic Rubber named after V.I. Academician S. V. Lebedev and at the Voronezhsintezkauchuk enterprise.<br><br>”Once I came across a book about the life of the Optina elders. I wanted to visit Optina Hermitage, see, touch. I went. What he saw shocked. I lived there for a year as a laborer, but something didn’t work out. ” He went on pilgrimage trips to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, where his younger brother Archimandrite Daniel served.<br>Priestly ministry on Sakhalin<br>In 2003, at the invitation of brother Daniel (Dorovskys), who became Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalin and Kuril, he came to Sakhalin. On April 10, 2003, Bishop Daniel (Dorovskikh) of Yuzhno-Sakhalin and Kuril was tonsured into monasticism and was given the name Tikhon in honor of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk. On April 13, Bishop Daniel ordained him a hierodeacon, and on April 20, a hieromonk.<br><br>April-July 2003 – staff priest of the Resurrection Cathedral in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. In July-December 2003, he was acting rector of St. Innocent of Moscow in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.<br><br>On August 19, 2003, he was awarded the right to wear a pectoral cross.<br><br>On December 29, 2003, he was appointed Secretary of the Yuzhno-Sakhalin Diocese.<br><br>On July 7, 2004 he was elevated to the rank of abbot.<br><br>On August 31, 2004, he was appointed head of the department of the Yuzhno-Sakhalin and Kuril diocese for interaction with the armed forces and law enforcement agencies.<br><br>On September 5, 2005, he was awarded the laying of a club and a cross with decorations.<br><br>In January 2009 he took part in the work of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2009.<br><br>In 2009 he graduated from the correspondence department of the theological faculty of the Orthodox St. Tikhon University for the Humanities.<br><br>On September 21, 2010, on Victory Square in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, during his visit to the Yuzhno-Sakhalin and Kuril Diocese, was elevated to the rank of archimandrite „for zealous service to the Russian Orthodox Church.”<br><br>On October 10, 2010, he was appointed rector of the Resurrection Cathedral in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.<br>Archbishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalin and Kuril<br>On December 24, 2010, by a resolution of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop Daniil Dorovskikh was appointed to the Arkhangelsk diocese, and (Dorovskikh) was elected Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalin and Kuril.<br><br>On January 22, 2011, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill led the rite of naming Archimandrite Tikhon (Dorovskys) bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalin and Kuril at the working Patriarchal residence in Chisty Pereulok. On January 23, at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, he was consecrated Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalin and Kuril. The consecration was made by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, Metropolitan of Krutitsk and Kolomna Yuvenaly (Poyarkov), Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia Varsonofiy (Sudakov), Metropolitan of Borjomi and Bakurian Seraphim (Jojua) (Georgian Orthodox Church); Archbishop of Samara and Syzran (Poletkin), Archbishop of Istra Arseny (Epifanov), Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhotursky Vikentiy (Morar), Archbishop of Vereya Evgeny (Reshetnikov), Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Georgy); Bishop Mercury of Zaraysk (Ivanov), Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk Daniel (Dorovskikh), Bishop of Solnechnogorsk Sergiy (Chashin), Bishop of Pavlodar and Ust-Kamenogorsk Barnabas (Safonov)<br><br>On June 6, 2011 at PSTGU he defended his qualifying bachelor’s work for the work „Views on the problem of the Old Believer schism and the missionary activity of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk”. From December 12 to December 23, 2011, he attended two-week advanced training courses for newly elected bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church at the general church postgraduate and doctoral studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius Equal to the Apostles.<br><br>He continued the activities of his predecessors in the field of temple building. Churches were built and consecrated in the village of Petropavlovskoye, in Uglegorsk, in Nevelsk, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (LIU-3). On December 24, 2012, he consecrated the Holy Trinity Church in Yuzhno-Kurilsk on Kunashir Island with premises for a Sunday school, a library and two apartments for priests, which became the first capital stone church in the Kuril Islands. A temple was also built on Iturup. The regional oncological and neuropsychiatric dispensaries are equipped with house churches. A large Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ was built in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, consecrated by Patriarch Kirill in 2016.<br><br>A department for prison ministry, a department for social service and church charity, for work with the indigenous peoples of the North, and a department for monasteries and monastics were formed. A crisis center was opened for women in difficult life situations, as well as a trusteeship center for drug and alcohol addicts in honor of the righteous John of Kronstadt.<br><br>Under him, the promotion of the subject „Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” with the module „Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” began, in connection with which the diocese organized numerous seminars on topics of interest to teachers to help teachers of the new subject, and lessons.<br><br>For many years in a row, the „GTRK Sakhalin” TV channel aired the weekly „Island of Orthodoxy” program, and the „Blagovest” program aired on the „Radio Russia Sakhalin” radio channel. Relations with the regional authorities were established, which made it possible to carry out joint projects with the Sakhalin Region government and regional ministries. Meetings were regularly held with the Catholic pastor and the leadership of Muslims.<br><br>On February 1, 2014, in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, “in consideration of hard work”, Patriarch Kirill was elevated to the rank of archbishop.<br>Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov<br>On April 4, 2019, by the decision of the Holy Synod, he was appointed Archbishop of Orlov and Bolkhov, head of the Oryol Metropolitanate, and he was grateful for the archpastoral labors incurred in the South Sakhalin Diocese. In this regard, he admitted that 16 years of service in the Yuzhno-Sakhalin diocese were the happiest years in his life, and “I have not been to Orel, I know nothing about the city. But when you go from Voronezh to Moscow by bus, you pass the city of Livny, I don’t know anything else about the Oryol region “.<br><br>On April 8, 2019, on the day of his 60th birthday, he celebrated the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts at the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and said goodbye to the clergy of the diocese on the eve of his departure to the Oryol Metropolitanate. On the morning of April 13, on the border of the Tula and Oryol regions, a solemn meeting of Archbishop Tikhon took place as the new ruling bishop of the Oryol diocese. And on April 21, 2019, in connection with the appointment to the Oryol See, in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Patriarch Kirill was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan.<br>