Back بايسيوس فيليشكوفسكى ARZ Паисий Величковски Bulgarian পায়িসি ভেলিচকোভস্কি Bengali/Bangla Paisius Velichkovsky Catalan Paisij Veličkovskij Czech Paisio Velichkovsky Spanish Païssy Velitchkovsky French Velicskovszkij Szent Paisziosz Hungarian Païsij Velyčkovs'kyj Italian პაის ველიჩკოვსკი Georgian
Paisius Velichkovsky | |
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 18th-century portrait of Paisius of Neamt. | |
| Venerable | |
| Born | December 20, 1722 Poltava, Cossack Hetmanate (now Ukraine) |
| Died | November 15, 1794 Neamț Monastery |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodoxy |
| Canonized | July 20, 1982 and 6 June 1988, Skete of St. Elias on Mount Athos and Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius by 1988 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, (Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow) |
| Feast | 15 November[1] |
| Patronage | Monastics |
Paisius Velichkovsky or Wieliczkowski (Paisie de la Neamţ in Romanian; Паисий Величковский in Russian; Паїсій Величковський in Ukrainian; 20 December 1722 – 15 November 1794) was an Eastern Orthodox monk and theologian who helped spread staretsdom or the concept of the spiritual elder to the Slavic world.[2] He is a pivotal figure in Orthodox Church history.[3]
- ^ "Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky".
- ^ McGuckin, John (2009). "The Life and Mission of St. Paisius Velichkovsky. 1722–1794. An Early Modern Master of the Orthodox Spiritual Life". Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality. 9 (Fall 2009, number 2). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 182–202. doi:10.1353/scs.0.0074. S2CID 145648844. Also accessible at http://sophiainstitutenyc.org Archived 2014-03-22 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ ""Our Spiritual Heritage", St. Symeon the New Theologian Orthodox Church". Archived from the original on 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2013-03-31.