Nektarije Krulj (; secular name: Nikola Krulj; ; 30 November 1879 – 7 September 1966) was a Serbian Orthodox bishop.
Biography The son of Vukan and Vida, he graduated from high school in Mostar and then from the . In 1907, the year he graduated, he became secretary of the church court in Mostar, a position he held for five years, while simultaneously studying law in Vienna and Zagreb, where he defended his doctoral dissertation in 1911. Episkop Sava Vuković, Srpski jerarsi od devetog do dvadesetog veka, Evro Beograd, Unireks Podgorica, Kalenić Kragujevac, 1996, p. 348.
In 1912, he was ordained a deacon and then a presbyter. He began teaching catechism in Mostar, Bihać, and Tuzla, after which he became a lecturer at the seminary in Sarajevo. In subsequent years, he served as rector of seminaries in Sremski Karlovci, Prizren, and Bitola. On 29 November 1925, he was appointed bishop of .
His episcopal ordination took place on 16 May 1926. Two years later, he was transferred to the cathedra of Zvornik and Tuzla. He actively supported the founded by Bishop Nikolaj of , whose goal was to oppose atheism, communism, and the spread of the influence of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The writings of Bishop Nikolaj also contained strong antisemitism.J. Byford, CANONIZING THE ‘PROPHET’ OF ANTI-SEMITISM: THE APOTHEOSIS OF BISHOP NIKOLAJ VELIMIROVIC AND THE LEGITIMIZATION OF RELIGIOUS ANTI-SEMITISM IN CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN SOCIETY. Bishop Nektarije organized the Community's congresses at the Tavna Monastery.
During World War II, he was transported by the German occupation authorities to Belgrade and participated in the work of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church under the leadership of Metropolitan Josif of Skopje. He then went to Niš, where he headed the theological seminary. Formally, he was also the administrator of the Serbian Orthodox eparchies in Croatia.
After the war, he returned to Zvornik, simultaneously serving as locum tenens of the Metropolitanate of Dabar and Bosnia and the Eparchy of Zachlumia and Herzegovina. In 1951, he became metropolitan bishop of Dabar and Bosnia. He worked to rebuild churches and monasteries destroyed during World War II. He remained in office until the end of his life; he was buried near the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel ("the Old Church") in Sarajevo.
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