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'''Bishop Evtikhy''' (secular name '''Ivan Timofeyevich Kurochkin''', ''Иван Тимофеевич Курочкин'') is Bishop of Domodedovo, the vicar of the [[Moscow diocese]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].
== Biography ==
After finishing school, he completed compulsory military service. In 1977, he was tonsured subdeacon by Bishop Maxim (Krokha) of the Moscow Patriarchate in Omsk. His spiritual fathers were Schemamonk Prochor, and Metropolitan Zinovi (Mazhuga) of Tsitsikar (Georgia). Between 1978 and 1982, he studied at the [[Moscow Theological Seminary]].
In 1982, he was tonsured to the [[small schema]] and ordained a [[deacon]] and priest by Bishop Maxim in Omsk. In 1983 he was elevated to igumenhegumen, and appointed the confessor of the Omsk-Tiumen Diocese and served in a newly opened parish in Shablinkin, near Ishim.
In 1989, together with some ten other priests of the Diocese, he petitioned reception into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. Metroplitan [[Vitaly (Ustinov) of New York|Vitaly (Ustinov)]] received him on the third day of Pentacost in 1990. In 1992, he organized the opening of the Cathedral of the Theophany in Ishim, which he labored to build.
