Andrei Zhekov

Andrei Zhekov was a Russian hieroschemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1865 in a village of the Odessa district, Kherson province. He reposed on 27 February 1921 at Thessaloniki, in hospital, after a long consumption. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Andrei Stepanovich in the world, the son of Paraskeva, nothing is known of his life in the world. In 1888, aged twenty-⁠three, he came to Athos and entered St Panteleimon, where on 8 April 1889 he was tonsured a rassophore with the name Andrei and on 6 June 1891 into the mantle. His first obedience was at the cell of St Demetrius. On 27 March 1918, together with Father Simeon (Bulatov) and Father Feodorit (Konstantinov), he was awarded the Order of St Anne, third class, by the division commander Taranovsky for the zeal with which he fulfilled his duties.