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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 11, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Apr 03, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Dec 27, 2023
	Deleted Web site: Fall of Tikon.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 17, 2013
	Add new Web site: Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America - Biography of Saint Tikhon.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 19, 2012
	Add new Web site: All Saints of North America Russian Orthodox Church - Biography of St. Patriarch Tikhon.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 19, 2012
	Add new Web site: Orthodox Church in America - Biography of Bishop Tikhon.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 19, 2012
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998