Born in Phrygia of pious parents. His father was an officer. Once the boy Eutychies was having fun with his peers, and their fun was that everyone wrote their name on a rock and next to the name the rank, which, according to a premonition, they will get in life. When it was Eutychius' turn, he wrote: Eutychius Patriarch! In his thirtieth year, he became the abbot of a monastery in Amasia. And when he was forty years old, the Metropolitan of Amasia sent him in his place at the Fifth Ecumenical Council. At the council, he shone like a bright star among the fathers of the church, both with his learning and his benevolence. When a dispute arose, whether heretics can be given to anathema after their death, he represented the opinion that they can, referring to the Book of the Empire, 13, 1-8 and to the IV book. Emperors 23, 16. And they were very fond of the emperor Justinian and the patriarch Minna. The king asked him for advice a lot, and Mina (at that time very rich) appointed him as his successor and begged the king to put it into action. So it would. Saint Eutychius ruled the church peacefully for twelve years. But then the devil raises a storm against him. That storm reached Emperor Justinian himself. Namely, the emperor fell into the Monophysite heresy of the Aftartodokets, who falsely taught that even before the resurrection, the Lord Jesus had a divine and incorruptible body, without feelings of hunger, thirst and pain. Eutychius resolutely stood up against that heresy, which is why the emperor banished him to his original monastery. Eutychius lived there for twelve years and eight months, and proved to be a great miracle worker, healing people from various diseases with prayers and anointing with oil. Justinian repents and dies, and he is succeeded by Justin, who restores Eutychius to the patriarchal throne, on which this saint remained until his death, peacefully governing the Church of God. At the age of seventy, he moved to the kingdom of Christ the Lord, whom he faithfully and courageously served his whole life, in the year 582.
One hundred and twenty holy martyrs who suffered in Persia.