Christophoros Prodromitis

Christophoros Prodromitis, also called Christophoros the Artinos, that is from Arta, was an Athonite Kollyvas monk, born in 1730 and reposed in 1812 or 1813. The Greek Wikipedia article on Iviron Monastery recalls him among the fathers who struggled in the skete of Saint John the Forerunner (Prodromou) of Iviron, in the years when Saint Makarios Notaras (d. 1805) lived in the same skete. It calls him "of venerable memory." Iviron Monastery, with its skete, knew in the second half of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the next a great hymnographic and hagiographic production, with lives of saints and services not found in the Menaia of the Church; among those who wrote is the Kollyvas Christophoros Prodromitis. Another article calls him a hieromonk and says he spoke of the Mezeras monastery near Serres. No further details are preserved in these sources. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.