Deacon Eugene Schreder

Deacon Eugene was raised in the small town of Paynesville, Minnesota. He and Elizabeth were married after graduating high school in 2014. In 2020, Eugene received a Bachelor’s degree in History from St. Cloud State University. In his studies he encountered several Orthodox saints whose prayers brought him to the doors of Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Church, which was only a few blocks away from the SCSU campus. On the Sunday of All Saints in June of 2020, the Schreder family was baptized into Christ.

Not long thereafter, with the help of Fr Andrew Jaye, Eugene began to discern a call to serve the Church in an ordained capacity, and Archbishop Paul of Blessed Memory ordained him a reader on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women in May of 2021. Having served Holy Myrrhbearers as a reader, Eugene, Elizabeth, and their three children began the next chapter of their lives at St. Tikhon’s Seminary in the Fall of 2023. They have since welcomed a fourth child into the world. Deacon Eugene is now completing his third year at seminary.