Romanus of Perekom

Holy Venerable Romanus of Perekom was abbot of the Perekom Monastery, near Novgorod, and the author of the Life of Venerable Ephraim of Perekom (or Verenda), founder and first abbot of the monastery. He died in 1554.

The monastery took its name from a canal (perekop), dug to bring water to it from the river Verenda into Lake Ilmen. Of Romanus it is known only that, after the death of Ephraim (at the end of the fifteenth century or in 1523), he became abbot of Perekom and stayed in the office, according to P. M. Stroev, until 1554; it seems he died in the same year. The Life of Ephraim is attributed to him in its own text: written by Abbot Romanus of the same monastery, disciple of the saint. Scholarship notes only three copies of the Life of Ephraim: one, of the seventeenth century, which was in the Perekom monastery, and two others in archives.

He is commemorated on 11 July (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Novgorod, in the new style.