Sergius Tikhomirov

Metropolitan Sergius (secular name Georgiy Alexeyevich Tikhomirov, Russian: Георгий Алексеевич Тихомиров;[1] June 16, 1871 – August 10, 1945) was a bishop of the Orthodox Eastern Church.

Throughout his tenure at the Academy he was a prolific preacher as well as an author of a number of works on the Church history of his native Novgorod region.

In 1923, the Great Kantō earthquake destroyed the headquarters of the Japanese Orthodox Church, severely damaging the Tokyo Resurrection Cathedral.

Sergius spent the wartime years in obscurity, and in 1945 he was arrested by the Japanese special police on suspicion of being a Soviet Russian spy.

By the time of his release, his health was terminally undercut, and he died on August 10, 1945, five days before the end of World War II.