Father '''Anatoly Tikhai''' was a [[hieromonk]] who came to Japan in the early 1870s to assist Fr. Nicholas in his missionary work in Japan. Initially, the future St.[[ Nicholas of Japan]] assigned Fr. Anatoly to his original church in Hakodate on Hokkaido island in northern Japan. During his years in Japan before he returned to Russia due to illness, [[Archimandrite]] Anatoly organized and taught schools in Hakodate and Osaka as well as serving as dean of the language school and organizing the seminary in Tokyo.