Nektarios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 815 (tpq) / 816 (taq) |
| PmbZ No. | 5239 |
| Religion | Iconoclast; Iconophile |
| Locations | Sakkoudion (Monastery of, Bithynia); Sakkoudion (Monastery of, Bithynia) (residence); Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) |
| Occupation | Monk |
| Textual Sources | Theodorus Studita, Catechesis Parva, ed. E. Auvray (Paris, 1891) (homiletics); Theodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters) |
A Stoudite monk, Nektarios 1 is recorded in several of the letters of Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite) written in 815 and 816; in 815 he was living in the monastery of Sakkoudion; when the persecution under Leo V (Leo 15) began he defected and took an active part in the persecution of those who supported the veneration of icons: Theod. Stud., Epp. 72, 73, 81, 116, 121, 131, 135. He was one of the persecutors who demanded signed statements condemning the veneration of icons from the hegoumenoi of monasteries outside Constantinople (εἷς ἐστι τῶν τὰ τῆς ἀσεβείας χειρόγραφα ἀπαιτούντων παρὰ τῶν καθηγουμένων τῆς ἔξω χώρας): Theod. Stud., Ep. 73, lines 28ff. He was rewarded for his activities by promotion to a position of authority (προεδρία): Theod. Stud., Catech. Parva 101 (p. 347 Auvray). He was perhaps appointed hegoumenos of a monastery; cf. also Hermias 1 and Leontios 29.
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