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[English Version] von Ochrid (Nahum; gest.23.12.910); Heiliger, Festtag 23.12., Schüler der Slawenapostel Kyrill und Method. N. gehörte wohl zu der Gruppe um Kyrill und Method, die sich 867–869 in Rom aufhielt, wo er auch die Priesterweihe empfangen haben dürfte. Nach der Zerschlagung des kyrillomethodianischen Missionswerks in Großmähren floh er 885 mit Kliment von Ochrid und Angelarij nach Bulgarien und wirkte im Umkreis der Hauptstadt Pliska. Nach Kliments Bischofsweihe 893 übernahm N. im Auftra…

[German Version] (Nahum of Ochrid; died Dec 23, 910); feast day Dec 23, pupil of Cyril and Methodius, apostles to the Slavs. Nahum presumably belonged to the group around Cyril and Methodius who lived in Rome from 867 to 869, where he may also have been ordained priest. After the destruction of Cyril and Methodius's mission work in Greater Moravia, he fled to Bulgaria in 885 with Clement of Ochrid and Angelarij, and was active in the neighborhood of the capital Pliska. After Clement was consecrate…

[German Version] ( Kozma Presviter; 2nd half of the 10th cent.), an Old-Bulgarian presbyter and author known only from his Beseda na novojavivščuju sja eres' Bogumilu (“Homily Concerning the Newly Arisen Heresy of Bogumil”). Most scholars date this extensive antiheretical tractate to the period shortly after the death of the Bulgarian tsar Petâr I (died c. 969/970). The Beseda is a major source of information on the emergence of Bogomilism (Bogomils) in Bulgaria and was included in Serbian and Russian antiheretical compilations until the…