Tryphon of Pechenga (Russian: Преподобный Трифон Печенгский, Кольский; Finnish: Pyhittäjä Trifon Petsamolainen (Kuolalainen); Skolt Sami: Pââʹss Treeffan; Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish: St./S:t Trifon av Petsamo; 1495–1583) was a Russian monk and ascetic in the Eastern Orthodox Church on the Kola Peninsula and in Lapland in the 16th century.

[2] Trained as a military engineer,[1] he felt that he was called by God to proclaim the Gospels to the Sámi.

[3] With permission from Archbishop Macarius of Novgorod to found a Church of the Annunciation up north, Mitrofan was tonsured a monk with the religious name Tryphon and ordained a hieromonk.

[4] After his ordination and tonsure, Tryphon became the leader of the Holy Trinity Monastery on the banks of the Pechenga River.

Tryphon died in 1583 at the age of 88[2] and is commemorated on 15 December in the Eastern Orthodox Church.