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His GraceBeatitude, Bishop the Most Blessed '''Tikhon (Mollard) of PhiladelphiaWashington''' was elected [[primate]] of the [[Orthodox Church in America]] (OCA) at the 17th [[All-American Council]]. His title is "Archbishop of [[Diocese of Washington (OCA)|Washington]], Metropolitan of All America and Canada". ==Life==Bishop Tikhon was born Marc R. Mollard in Boston, Massachusetts on [[July 15]], 1966, the ruling oldest of three children born to Francois and Elizabeth Mollard. After brief periods living in Connecticut, France, and Missouri, he and his family settled in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Wyomissing High School in 1984. In 1988 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Sociology from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after which he moved to Chicago, where he attended services at Ss. Peter and Paul Church ([[bishopOCA]] of ). In 1989 he was received into the Orthodox Church from [[DioceseAnglican Communion|Episcopalianism]] , and, in the fall of Eastern the same year, he began studies at [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary (South Canaan, Pennsylvania )|St. Tikhon's Seminary]] in South Canaan, Pennsylvania. One year later he entered the [[monasticism|monastic]] community at [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Church Monastery (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)|St. Tikhon's Monastery]] as a [[novice]].  After receiving his Master of Divinity degree from St. Tikhon's in 1993, he was appointed as an instructor in [[Old Testament]] Studies there. He continues to serve as senior lecturer in Old Testament, teaching master's level courses in the [[prophet]]s and the [[Psalms]] and Wisdom Literature. He is also an instructor in the seminary's extension studies program, offering courses in the lives of the Old Testament [[saint]]s, the liturgical use of the Old Testament, and the Old Testament in America[[patristics|patristic]]literature.

==Life==Bishop Tikhon In 1995 he was born Marc R. Mollard in Boston, Massachusetts on [[July 15tonsure]], 1966, d to the oldest lesser schema by His Eminence [[Archbishop]] [[Herman (Swaiko) of three children born to Francois Washington and Elizabeth Mollard. After brief periods living in Connecticut, France, New York|Herman]] and Missourigiven the name Tikhon, he and his family settled in Readinghonor of St. [[Tikhon of Moscow|Patriarch Tikhon]], Pennsylvania, where Enlightener of North America. Later that year he graduated from Wyomissing High School in 1984was [[ordination|ordaine]]d to the Holy [[deacon|Diaconate]] and Holy [[Priest]]hood at St. Tikhon's Monastery. In 1988 1998 he received a Bachelor was elevated to the rank of Arts degree [[igumen]] and in 2000 to the rank of [[archimandrite]].  Archimandrite Tikhon collaborated with Igumen [[Alexander Golitzin|Alexander (Golitzin)]] in French and Sociology from Franklin and Marshall Collegethe publication of "The Living Witness of the Holy Mountain, Lancaster" published by St. Tikhon Seminary Press, Pennsylvaniaby illustrating this classic book about [[Mount Athos]].  In December 2002, after which he moved was appointed by [[Metropolitan]] Herman to Chicago where he attended services serve as deputy abbot of St. Tikhon's Monastery. Archimandrite Tikhon was consecrated to the episcopacy at Ssthe monastery on Saturday, [[February 14]], 2004 by his Beatitude Herman, becoming Bishop of South Canaan. Peter  On [[October 29]], 2005, Bishop Tikhon was officially installed as the ruling [[hierarch]] of the [[Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania (OCA)|Diocese of Philadelphia and Paul Church (Eastern Pennsylvania]] during [[OCADivine Liturgy]])at the Saint Stephen Cathedral.

In 1989 On [[May 9]], 2012, he was received into elevated to the Orthodox Church from Episcopalianism dignity of Archbishop, andon November 13, in the fall of the same year, he began studies at [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary (South Canaan2012, Pennsylvania)|St. Archbishop Tikhon Seminary, South Canaan]], Pennsylvania. One year later he entered was elected Primate of the [[monasticism|monastic]] community at [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)|St. Tikhon Monastery]] as a [[novice]]Church in America.

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