Scott M. Kenworthy
Professor of history at Miami University who specializes in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and modern Russia; author of The People's Patriarch, a critical biography of Patriarch Tikhon based on archival research.
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Apr 6, 2026 • 1h 23min
Scott M. Kenworthy, "The People's Patriarch: Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Scott M. Kenworthy, a historian of Eastern Orthodoxy and modern Russia, discusses Patriarch Tikhon Bellavin, a humble parish priest who rose to lead the Russian Church. He traces Tikhon’s institution building in North America, his return to Russia in 1917, clashes with the Bolsheviks, church-state reform efforts, and the trials, arrests, and resilience that shaped the Orthodox Church’s fate.
