Philadelphia Inquirer David O’Reilly
Tikhon drifted away from the Episcopalianism of his boyhood, but found faith in a Chicago church.
A curious thing happened to Marc Mollard on his way to veterinary school.
He decided to join the Orthodox Church.
Then he entered an Orthodox monastery, where his spirituality earned him the admiration of church leaders.
Now he is the newly ordained Bishop Tikhon, head of the Diocese of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania of the Orthodox Church in America.
Yet he is just 39 – young enough to remember what it was like to be young and searching. And he hopes his journey into Orthodoxy might encourage other Americans to follow.
“People today are looking for something real – for deeper reality and the meaning of life,” he said during a recent visit to St. Stephen pro-Cathedral in the Northeast. “I was looking as well, and I think I was led providentially to Orthodoxy.”
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