Euthymius Nikitich Goryachev

Euthymius Nikitich Goryachev was born on January 19, 1884, in the village of Nikolskoye-Barnuki in the Penza province into a poor peasant family. He was orphaned early and raised by his uncle and later taken in by a local priest.

He studied at the village school, then at a two-year school that was transformed into a teacher's seminary. From 1900 to 1911, he taught at the school in the village of Arkhangelskoye and then at the Voskresensko-Lopukhovskaya school in the Penza province.

In 1911, he entered the pastoral courses in Moscow.
He was ordained a priest in March 1912.
From 1912 to 1917, he served in the church of the village of Novo-Novoselovo in Siberia.
On March 11, 1917, he began serving in the church of the village of Bolshoy Uluy on the Chulym River near the town of Achinsk in the Yenisei province.

On November 5, 1917, he was elected dean of the district.
On November 21, 1922, he was removed from his position by the renovationist county Church Administration for resisting the "Living Church" movement.
On July 20, 1923, he was dismissed by the renovationist diocesan council.
On January 25, 1924, he was deprived of his rank by the renovationist diocesan council but continued to serve regardless.

In August 1924, he was arrested and held in Achinsk prison for one month and then in Krasnoyarsk prison under the GPU for two months.
From December 1924, he lived in the village of Bolshoy Uluy. He did not serve until Holy Thursday in 1925 because the church was occupied by renovationists.

On January 21, 1926, he was re-elected as dean and confirmed in this position by Bishop Amphilochius (Skvortsov) on June 23, 1926.
From June 26, 1926, he was appointed rector of the Trinity Cathedral in Achinsk.
On November 30, 1929, he was arrested for not being a supporter of Soviet power. Before his arrest, the authorities confiscated his family's house.

On February 23, 1930, he was sentenced by the GPU under Article 58-10 to three years in a labor camp but was released early.
From January 16, 1933, to April 1933, he served in the church of the village of Skripachnikovskoye until its closure.
From May 1933 to August 2, 1935, he served in the Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin in the village of Beya and was dean of the district. Upon the church's closure, he was arrested for passport violations and sentenced to six months in a labor camp, which was later commuted to a fine.

From 1935 to 1936, he lived in the village of Beya, serving at night at home.
On April 11, 1936, he was arrested during Easter night for "illegal registration of civil status" and was imprisoned in the city of Minusinsk on May 30. In August 1936, he was sentenced to three years in a labor camp in Kazakhstan (Karlag). En route from Petropavlovsk prison to Karaganda, he was taken off the transport to herd sheep to Lake Balkhash.

He arrived at Karlag on September 6, 1936, and was stationed at the Burminskoye division of Karlag, working as a guard at a technical warehouse.
He was arrested in Karlag on September 1, 1937.
On September 10, 1937, the NKVD Troika of the Karaganda region sentenced him to execution by shooting.
He was executed on September 15, 1937, and his burial place remains unknown.

Euthymius Nikitich Goryachev was glorified as a saint by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.