Monument to Holy Patriarch Tikhon may be erected in Anchorage, Alaskatranslated

In the city of Anchorage in the American state of Alaska, a monument to the holy Patriarch Tikhon may be erected in the future.

About this at a press conference about the exhibition of contemporary church art “Christian Tradition. Our days,” said the chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea, RIA Novosti reports.

Bishop Tikhon said that the sculpture depicting the holy Patriarch Tikhon was created by the domestic sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov.

According to the chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, Vyacheslav Klykov created a sculpture that had never been installed anywhere before, and the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada, plans to consecrate it.

– As I was told, the head of the American Autocephalous Orthodox Church is going to consecrate it. “We, of course, contributed in every possible way, and the heirs of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Klykov were happy to transfer this sculpture there,” said Metropolitan Tikhon.

According to him, in the future the sculpture may be installed in Anchorage, Alaska. And this is no coincidence, because Before his election to the Patriarchal throne, Saint Tikhon was a bishop in America with a see in...