Fr. Anatolie was originally from
Bessarabia. He was born 23 November 1839 in
Tărăsăuți, Hotin district (later known as
Khotinsky Uyezd) in the northern part of Moldova (Bessarabia). He graduated from
Chişinău Theological Seminary and from
Kiev Theological Academy. He lived on
Mount Athos for four years before he was assigned to assist Fr. Nicholas with his mission work in Japan. The hieromonk Anatolie arrived in Japan during December 1871 while Fr. Nicholas' activities were still centered in Hakodate. After reviewing the status of the missionary effort in Japan with Fr. Anatolie, Fr. Nicholas assigned Fr. Anatolie to the existing
parish at Hakodate, thus continuing the community that had formed there. This allowed Fr. Nicholas to move his activities to Edo (Tokyo). In 1873, Fr. Anatolie established the Motomachi Orthodox Primary School in Hakodate where he taught for the next seven years. By 1880, the school had an enrollment of 300. In 1880, Fr. Anatolie was raised to the rank of Archimandrite and also was called by Bp. Nicholas to come to the Kanda Surugadai headquarters in Tokyo to become the dean of the language school and the newly organised
seminary. Here he taught theology to the seminarians and assisted Bp. Nicholas. As the Mission expanded, Fr. Anatolie was assigned in 1882 to organise a mission school in Osaka. In the late 1880s Archimandrite Anatolie's health began to fail, and in the summer of 1890 he returned to Russia where he reposed in 1893. ==See also==