The Archbishop Author:Tihon Hieromonk The Archbishop of Monk Tihon is a famous book in Russia. Written before the Bolshevik revolution, it came under the steamroller of the communist censorship along with other extraordinary books of Orthodoxy. The Archbishop is a book that provokes, a literary work, o novella, not a treaty of ecclesiology, continuing to be a cry against the ecclesi... more »astical conformity.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the author, Hieromonk Tihon, is unsatisfied with the lukewarm general atmosphere that rules inside the Church. He devises an ideal shepherd in the person of the main character of the book -- the Archbishop -- who tries to bring the apostolic spirit among priests and believers. Although the book is somehow meant to be a spiritual deployment program, it is read as an interesting, realistic, maybe too honest sometimes, chronicle of the ecclesial life. The characters are vivid, honest, uninvented. Nothing stops us from believing that this "Archbishop" existed for real and that, maybe, he himself wrote this book. The book is read with pleasure and, once read, cannot be forgotten.« less