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Ivan Kurochkin was born in 6 March 1955 in Ishim, USSR. He baptized at St. Nicholas Church in Ishim.
After finishing school, he completed compulsory military service. In 1977, he was tonsured subdeacon by Bishop [[Maxim (KrochaKrokha)]] 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 igumen, and appointed the confessor of the Omsk-Tiumen Diocese and served in a newly opened parish in Shablinkin, near Ishim.
In January 1994, he was elevated to archimandrite in ROCOR.
At the Sobor of Bishops following the Glorification of [[John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker|Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco]], Father Evtikhy delivered a report on church life in Ishim. The same Council nominated him to the episcopate as Bishop of Ishim and Siberia. Bishop Evtikhy's consecration took place in 10/23 July 1994, presided over by Metroplitan Vitaly.
In the late 1990s, he spoke out against reconciliation with the Moscow Patriarchate, but later, in 2002, he upheld the decision of the ROCOR Synod of Bishops, which were aimed at expanding the dialogue with the ROC. Since 2003 he was participant in the negotiations with the ROC. He has appeared as a supporter of the restoration of full communion between ROCOR and Moscow Patriarchate.
