16,951
edits
Changes
m
spelling
In 1982, Ivan was tonsured to the [[Schemamonk|small schema]]. He was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]] and then a [[priest]] by Bp. Maxim in Omsk. In 1983, he was elevated to [[Igumen]] and was appointed the confessor of the Omsk-Tiumen Diocese. There, Fr. Evtikhy served in a newly opened [[parish]] in Shablinkin, near Ishim.
In 1989, together with some ten other priests of the [[diocese]], he petitioned for reception into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. [[MetroplitanMetropolitan]] [[Vitaly (Ustinov) of New York|Vitaly (Ustinov)]] received him on the third day of Pentecost in 1990. In 1992, he organized the opening of the [[Cathedral]] of the Theophany in Ishim, which he labored to build. On [[July 13]], 1990 Igumen Eutyches was prohibited from serving by Bp. [[Anthony (Cheremisov) of Krasnoyarsk|Anthony]] of Tobolsk and Tyumen.
In January 1994, he was elevated to [[archimandrite]] in ROCOR.
