"MY PATH IS SERVICE TO THE CHURCH." MILESTONES IN THE LIFE PATH AND MINISTRY OF BISHOP EVTIKHIY (KUROCHKIN)

Pavel V. Bochkov

Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, The rector of the church of St. Bows of the Archbishop of Krasnoyarsk, Norilsk, Russia

Email: frpavel@inbox.ru

ORCID: 0000-0002-3218-6706

Issue: № 1 (21), 2023

Pages: 87

Annotation

The article is dedicated to the memory of Bishop Evtikhiy (Kurochkin) (1955– 2022), one of the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, who strongly supported the path of ROCOR towards reunification with the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. He worked to heal this painful church division and restore unity within the Local Russian Church. Churches. Being a zealous hierarch, over the years of his service, Bishop Eutychius was not only a church administrator, but above all a kind and humble pastor, confessor, a tireless worker, a sincere and attentive interlocutor. Having experienced the temptations of church divisions and inter-j urisdictional confrontations, Bishop Eutychius, by his personal example of modesty and peacemaking, showed the way to church unity and the fullness of Christian life in its spiritual dimension.

Keywords

Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Evtikhy (Kurochkin), Vitaly (Ustinov), church divisions, restoration of church unity, Russian parishes of ROCOR

For citation

Bochkov P. V., priest. "My path is service to the Church." Milestones in the life path and ministry of bishop Evtikhiy (Kurochkin) // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2023. № 1. Р. 87–126 (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.24412/2309–5164–2023–1–87–126