Born in Phrygia of pious parents. His father was an officer. Once, the boy Eutychius was having fun with his peers, and their fun consisted in each writing his name on a rock and next to his name the rank that, according to a premonition, he would receive in life. When it was Eutychius' turn, he wrote: Eutychius the Patriarch! At the age of thirty, he became the abbot of a monastery in Amasya. And when he was forty, the Metropolitan of Amasya sent him in his place to the Fifth Ecumenical Council. At the council, he shone like a bright star among the fathers of the church, both for his learning and for his piety. When a dispute arose as to whether heretics could be anathema after their death, he argued that they could, referring to the Book of Kings, 13:1-8 and the Fourth Book of Kings, 23:16. And he was very popular with Emperor Justinian and Patriarch Menas. The emperor asked him for advice a lot, and Menas (who was very rich at that time) appointed him as his successor and begged the emperor to put it into practice. And so it was. For twelve years, Saint Eutychius governed the church peacefully. But then the devil raised a storm against him. That storm reached Emperor Justinian himself. The emperor was deceived, namely, and fell into the Monophysite heresy of the Aphthartodocets, which falsely taught that even before the resurrection, the Lord Jesus had a divine and incorruptible body, without the feeling of hunger, thirst, or pain. Eutychius resolutely rose up against this heresy, for which the emperor banished him to his original monastery. Eutychius lived there for twelve years and eight months, and showed himself to be a great miracle worker, healing people from various diseases through prayers and anointing with oil. Justinian repented and died, and he was succeeded by Justin, who restored Eutychius to the patriarchal throne, where 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 throughout his life, in the year 582.

The Holy One Hundred and Twenty Martyrs Who Suffered in Persia.