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Our venerable father ''The '''[[Pachomius the GreatEpiscopal Assembly of North and Central America]]''''' (c. 292-346 A.D.) was an early Egyptian ascetic, both a [[Desert Fathers|Desert Father]] founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and a founder of [[cenobitic]] [[monasticism]] in EgyptCentral America, representing multiple jurisdictions. Pachomius was born It is the successor to pagan parents in Thebaid (Upper Egypt)SCOBA, receiving an excellent secular education and having it is not, properly speaking, a good character from his youthsynod. During his time in The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the Roman army, he stayed world which operate in a prison that was used to house the new conscripts, run by Christians. He was so impressed by their love of their neighbor that he vowed to become a Christian after his military service ended-called "diaspora."
Thus in 314 Pachomius was [[baptism|baptized]] and began to practice the ascetic life. Three years later he withdrew to the desert under the guidance of the elder Palamon. According to tradition, after ten years with Palamon he heard a Voice telling him to found a monastic community at Tabbenisi. He and Palamon traveled there, and subsequently Pachomius had a vision in which an angel came to him, clothed in a schema (a type of monastic garment), and gave him a rule for the cenobitic life. This is significant because up until this time ascetics had for the most part lived alone as hermits, not together in a community. Pachomius' rule balanced the communal life with the solitary life; monks live in individual cells but work together for the common good.
By 348, Pachomius directed almost three thousand monks. This, however, was also the year that he was infected by some form illness. St. Pachomius died around the year 348 at the age of fifty-three, and was buried on a hill near the monastery. St. [[Jerome]] translated the rule of St. Pachomius into Latin in 404, and only this translation survives. The rule of St. Pachomius influenced St. Benedict, the most influential figure in Western monasticism, in preparing his own rule. He is celebrated by the Church on [[May 15]]. '''''Recently featured:''''' [[ChrismationRaphael Morgan]], [[Sava the NewHoly Week]], [[Georges Florovsky]], [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside RussiaTheodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria]], [[ROCOR and OCAPaschal Homily]], [[PaschaPachomius the Great]]. ''Newly View all [[:Category:Featured Articles|featured articles]] are presented on '''Saturdays'''.''<noinclude>
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