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Bishop Tikhon was born Marc R. Mollard in Boston, Massachusetts on [[July 15]], 1966, the oldest of three children born to Francois and Elizabeth Mollard. After brief periods living in Connecticut, France, and Missouri, he and his family settled in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Wyomissing High School in 1984. In 1988 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Sociology from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after which he moved to Chicago where he attended services at Ss. Peter and Paul Church ([[OCA]]).
In 1989 he was received into the Orthodox Church from Episcopalianism and, in the fall of the same year, he began studies at [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)|St. Tikhon Seminary, South Canaan]], Pennsylvania. One year later he entered the monastic community at [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)|St. Tikhon Monastery]] as a [[novice]].
After receiving his Master of Divinity degree from St. Tikhon Seminary in 1993, he was appointed instructor in Old Testament at St. Tikhon [[Seminary]]. He continues to serve as Senior Lecturer in Old Testament, teaching Master level courses in the Prophets and the Psalms and Wisdom Literature. He is also an instructor in the seminary's Extension Studies program, offering courses in the lives of the Old Testament saints, the liturgical use of the Old Testament, and the Old Testament in patristic literature.