NAUM OF OCHRID

NAUM OF OCHRID, monk, translator, St. (830–910). One of the most accomplished and able disciples of Constantine-Cyril and Methodius (qq.v.), Naum (also Nahum) was the founder ca. 905 of a monastery, subsequently named for him, on Lake Ochrid in Macedonia (q.v.). He also was translator of liturgical and patristic texts into Church Slavic and a major force in the church of the Bulgarian Empire. He and his circle of disciples are the likely source of the Slavic alphabet, Cyrillic, currently in use in Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, and Ukraine (qq.v.).