[[Image:St_Tikhons_ArchPlaton Rozhdestvensky.jpg|100px|StMetr. Tikhon's Orthodox MonasteryPlaton (Rozhdestvensky) of New York]]

His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan '''[[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery Platon (South Canaan, PennsylvaniaRozhdestvensky)|St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monasteryof New York]]''' (founded in 1905, previously ''St. Tikhon's Russian Orthodox Monastery'') in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, is the oldest operating Orthodox was [[monasteryprimate]] in North America. Attached to it is of the [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)OCA|St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological SeminaryRussian Metropolia]], one (the former name of the three OCA) twice, from 1907 to 1914 and then from 1921 to his death on [[seminary|seminariesApril 20]] , 1934. A controversial figure, he presided over the declaration of "temporary self-government" for the Metropolia in 1924 and over the creation of the short-lived [[American Orthodox Catholic Church in America]]in 1927.

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