Nikodim Naumov

Nikodim Naumov was a Russian hieroschemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1854 into a peasant family in the Sapozhok district, Ryazan province. He reposed on 30 March 1908, aged fifty-⁠four, after twenty-⁠five years of obedience in the monastery. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Nikolai Vasilievich in the world, he was well educated and in 1877-1878 took part as a soldier in the Russo-⁠Turkish war. In 1883 he became a novice at the Odessa metochion, and after a year was moved to Athos, where on 30 May 1885 he was tonsured a rassophore with the name Nikodim. He was boundlessly glad of the tonsure blessing he received from Father Hieronymus. A contemporary writes that he had much work and an astonishing energy to the last, and was a very cultivated man. He died on 30 March 1908.