Saint Eutychius, Archbishop of Constantinople, was born in a village called "Divine" in the Phrygian region. His father, Alexander, was a soldier, and his mother, Sinesia, was the daughter of the priest of the Augustopolsky church Hesychius. Saint Eutychius received his primary education and Christian upbringing from his grandfather, a priest. Once, during a children's game, the boy wrote his name with the title of Patriarch and this seemed to indicate his future ministry. At the age of 12, he was sent to Constantinople to receive further education. The young man succeeded in studying the sciences and realized that human wisdom is nothing before the teachings of Divine Revelation. He decided to devote himself to monastic life. Saint Eutychius retired to one of the Amasian monasteries and accepted the Angelic rank in it. During his strict life, he was appointed archimandrite of all the Amasian monasteries, and in 552 he was elevated to the patriarchal throne.
When the convocation of the Fifth Ecumenical Council was being prepared under the Holy blessed King Justinian (527-565), Metropolitan of Amasia was ill and sent Saint Eutychius in his place. In Constantinople, the aged Patriarch Saint Mina (536-552, commemorated on August 25) saw Blessed Eutychius and predicted that he would be Patriarch after him. After the death of the Holy Patriarch Mina, the Apostle Peter appeared in a vision to the Emperor Justinian and, pointing to Eutychius, said: "May he be appointed to you as a bishop."
At the beginning of the patriarchal ministry of Saint Eutychius, the V Ecumenical Council was convened (553), at which the fathers condemned the heresies that had arisen and anathematized them. However, a few years later, a new heresy arose in the Church, the author of the Orthodoxers, that is, the "incorruptible ones", who taught that the flesh of Christ before the death on the Cross and Resurrection was incorruptible and did not suffer.
Saint Eutychius boldly denounced this heresy, but the Emperor Justinian, who himself bowed to it, unleashed his anger on the saint. By order of the emperor, the soldiers seized the saint in the temple, tore off his patriarchal vestments and sent him into exile to the Amasi monastery (in 565).
The saint meekly endured exile, stayed in the monastery in fasting and prayer, and performed many miracles and healings.
So, at his prayer, the wife of a pious husband, Androgypus, who had previously given birth to only dead babies, had two sons born and reached adulthood. Two deaf-mute youths were given the gift of speech; two children, who were seriously ill, recovered. The saint healed the cancer on the artist's arm. The saint healed another artist by anointing his sore hand with oil and making the sign of the cross over it. The saint healed not only bodily but also mental illnesses: he exorcised a demon from the girl who did not allow her to receive Holy Communion; he exorcised a demon from a young man who had run away from a monastery (after that, the young man returned to his monastery); he healed a leper drunkard, who, having been cleansed of leprosy, stopped drinking.
During the Persian attack on Amasia and the general devastation of the inhabitants, on the instructions of the saint, grain was given to the starving from the monastery granaries, and the grain reserves in the monastery did not become impoverished by his prayers.
Saint Eutychius received the gift of prophecy from God; thus, he indicated the names of two emperors who succeeded Justinian - Justin (565 - 578) and Tiberius (578 - 582).
After the death of the holy Patriarch John Scholastic, Saint Eutychius returned to the pulpit in 577 from a 12-year exile and again began to wisely manage his flock.
Four and a half years after his return to the patriarchal throne, St. Eutychius gathered the entire clergy on Sunday of St. Thomas in 582, gave a blessing and departed in peace to the Lord.