Joachim of Opochka

Venerable Joachim of Opochka was a disciple of Saint Euphrosynus of Pskov, founder of the Spaso-⁠Eleazarov monastery, and lived in the sixteenth century. He founded on the river Shelon, near Porkhov, the Opochka monastery of the Holy Prophet Elijah. He died around 1550. He is commemorated on 9 September.

About his death a handwritten calendar says: the venerable father Joachim, hegumen of the Opochka monastery of the Holy Prophet Elijah on the river Shelon, departed to the Lord in the month of September, on the ninth day.

His relics rest beneath the floor, in the church of Saint Elijah in the monastery he founded. The monastery was abolished in 1688, and the church became a parish church.