[1] After completing his studies at the Academy, Tikhon continued his work as a teacher in the Moscow seminary, where he taught liturgy, homiletics and Ancient Greek.

[1] On 25 March 1993 he was consecrated a priest by Patriarch Alexy II, and was shortly after tonsured a monastic monk by the Archimandrite Benedict (Knyazev), the first Prorector of the Moscow Spiritual Academy and the Seminary.

He was also appointed chairman of the revived Financial and Economic Department of the Moscow Patriarchate with the dismissal of the head of the Russian Theological Mission in Jerusalem.

On 25 April Tikhon was appointed bishop in the Cross Church of All Saints for the Patriarchal and Synodal Residences of the Danilov Monastery in the Russian land.

[15] On 9 January 2018, as part of being appointed bishop of Germany, Tikhon was relieved of the administration of the North-Eastern Vicariate of the city of Moscow and the post of rector of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Khamovniki.

[17] On April 13, 2021, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, in connection with the formation of the Diocese of Podolsk, his title was changed to "of Ruza".