In 1939 he spents three months in the Romanian Skete Prodromos on Mount Athos.
Endemic to Cyprus where it is confined to the higher peaks of Troodos where it is not uncommon: Khnionistra, Prodromos, Troodos Square, Loumata Aeton, Xerocolymbos, Papoutsa.
He was born under the Ottoman Empire, at Prodromos village in Limassol District in 1845 and died under British sovereignty, in 1916.