 St. Tikhon (Belavin), then Archbishop of Vilnius, presided over the cathedral and Orthodox Christians of Lithuania between 1913 and the occupation of Lithuania by the German troops in 1915.Most of the Russian Orthodox clergy left with the retreating Russian army.The cathedral of the Theotokos was damaged during the Second World War but was restored in 1948, although its renovations were not completed until 1957.