Archimandrite Naum commemorated at Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra on 40th day of his repose

Sergiev Posad, November 22, 2017

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Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra prayerfully commemorated the 40th day of the repose of the ever-memorable Archimandrite Naum (Baiborodin) yesterday, on the feast of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and All the Bodiless Powers of Heaven, reports patriarchia.ru.

The All-Night Vigil was celebrated the night before in the monastery’s Dormition Cathedral by Metropolitan Nikon of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak and the deputy abbot of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra Archbishop Theognost of Sergiev Posad. Four Divine Liturgies were celebrated in various churches throughout the Lavra on the day of the feast itself. A petition for the repose of the newly-departed Archimandrite Naum was read out in every Liturgy.

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Met. Nikon and Abp. Theognost celebrated the Liturgy in Holy Trinity Cathedral. The late Liturgy was celebrated in Dormition Cathedral by Archbishop Sergius of Solnechnogorsk, with the assistance of a host of hierarchs, the abbots of a number of monasteries, the ordained brothers of the Lavra, and the clergy of various dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Following the Divine Liturgy, Abp. Sergius served a panikhida for the newly-reposed Elder Naum at his grave, behind the altar of the Holy Spirit Church. In addition to the gathered hierarchs and clergy, a number of Fr. Naum’s spiritual children were also present to pray for the soul of their beloved elder.

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The oldest monk of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, the elder known and beloved throughout Russia Archimandrite Naum (Baiborodin), reposed in the Lord in his 90th year of life on October 13. He was buried on October 15.

  

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Archimandrite Naum (Nikolai Alexandrovich Baiborodin in the world) was born on December 19, 1927, the feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, into a peasant family in the village of Malo-Irmenka in the Novosibirsk Province. He was baptized on December 25.

In October 1944, Nikolai was drafted into the Soviet army, serving in aeronautical divisions. He participated in the war against Germany and Japan, subsequently being awarded the medals “For Victory over Germany” and “30 Years of the Soviet Army.” He was demobilized in 1952, and entered the physics and mathematics department of the Kyrgyz State University the next year.

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The future elder entered the Moscow Theological Seminary in 1957. He was received as a novice in the Lavra that year on October 14, the feast of the Holy Protection. On August 14, 1958 he was tonsured with the name Naum in honor of St. Naum, the disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh. He was ordained as a hierodeacon two months later on the October 8th feast of St. Sergius. Exactly one year later he was ordained as a hieromonk. He graduated from the seminary in 1960.

On April 25, 1970, he was elevated to the rank of igumen, and on Pascha 1979 to the rank of archimandrite.

Archimandrite Naum was a faithful and self-sacrificing servant of the Church, giving all his strength to labors for the glory of God. Throughout the course of many decades he daily received pilgrims for Confession and spiritual guidance. The flow of people coming to him never dried up, people coming from all corners of Russia, and from other countries, and Fr. Naum, not sparing himself, received them all, overcoming infirmities and sicknesses. He could find a word of edification and comfort in the Patristic spirit for even the most difficult problems. His ceaseless prayer and zeal for ministry were a high example for the monastic brotherhood.

11/22/2017

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