Tikhon (Stepanov)

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Bishop Tikhon of Archangelsk and Kolmogorsk blessing a cupola on the Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God

Bishop Tikhon (secular name Nikolay Vladimirovich Stepanov, Николай Владимирович Степанов; 2 March 1963, Kostroma – 20 October 2010, Arkhangelsk, Russia) was the Russian Orthodox bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory. [1]

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