Andronik was an Eastern Orthodox archbishop and religious writer who served the church in the Russian Empire and Japan. Born Vladimir Nikolsky in 1870, he entered the priesthood after studying at the Moscow Theological Academy. His ministry included serving as the first Bishop of Kyoto and later as the Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk. He is recognized as a saint and a hieromartyr due to his death during the Bolshevik revolutionary period.