Nectarius of Prodromou

Nectarius was a hieroschemamonk, born at Bursucani, near Bârlad, the second founder of the Romanian Skete of the Prodromos on Athos and its steward, a close collaborator of Elder Nifon Ionescu. He lived between 1800 and about 1900. He is named in the Romanian Paterikon and venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization; the sources available to us give no day of commemoration.

Hearing of Horaița Monastery and of the great elder Irinarch Roseti, he came there and was tonsured by him around 1830. With his blessing, in 1840 he went to the Holy Mountain with his guide, the monk Natanail. Together they struggled, bore the privations, bought the cell Vigla Ianicopoli below the summit of Athos, received the schema, collected aid from the country and founded the Romanian Skete of the Prodromos. Elder Nifon cared more for the community's spiritual matters, and Nectarius, as steward, for the material ones: he collected money from the country, brought materials for church and cells, transported food by ship and welcomed all.

In 1852 he brought to Athos three of his brothers by flesh and made them schemamonks. After 1870, when Elder Nifon withdrew from the Prodromos to stillness, he too withdrew near his brothers, at Saint Anne's Skete. There he struggled more than twenty years, in fasting and prayer. He fell asleep in peace toward the end of the nineteenth century.