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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 hegumen, 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. [[July 13]], 1990 hegumen Eutyches was prohibited from serving by bishop [[Anthony (Cheremisov) of Tobolsk|Anthony]] of Tobolsk and Tyumen.
In January 1994, he was elevated to archimandrite in ROCOR.