Evtikhian (Lestev)

Born in the family of a priest of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese . He graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theological Seminary (1808) and the St. Petersburg Theological Academy (1814) with a Master of Theology degree. During his studies, from May 29, 1812 to August 26, 1814, he was an assistant librarian of the Academy.

Immediately after graduating from the Academy, he was determined, on August 13, 1814, by an inspector and professor of theology at the Kostroma Theological Seminary . Five years later, on June 28, 1819, he was tonsured a monk with the name Eutykhian in the Kostroma Epiphany Monastery , on July 8 of the same year he was ordained a hierodeacon, and on July 10 - a hieromonk. A year later, on September 28, 1820, he was appointed rector of the Kostroma seminary ; On January 2, 1821, he was elevated to the rank of hegumen of the Epiphany Monastery, and on January 10 he was determined to be present in the Kostroma spiritual consistory.

From February 21, 1821, he is the rector of the Vologda Theological Seminary and, after being ordained on April 6 to archimandrites, he is the prior of the Savior Prilutsky Monastery .

In 1830 he was summoned to St. Petersburg by a succession of the priesthood, after which, in January 1831, he returned to Vologda.

In 1831, he was appointed archimandrite of the Epiphany of Pinsk, the first-class monastery of the Minsk diocese .

In 1833 he was appointed rector of the Voronezh Theological Seminary , from where he was dismissed in 1834 to rest in the Ryazan Solotchinsky monastery , where he died and was buried in 1837.

• Evtikhian Lestev // Vologda diocesan lists. - 1869. - № 20. - p. 770.
• Rodossky A. S. Biographical dictionary of students of the first XXVIII courses of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. 1814–1869. - SPb., 1907. - P. 148.

• Evtikhian (Lestev) in the encyclopedia "The Tree"
• Almanac "Svetoch" on the site of the Kostroma Church-historical society