Paisius Explained
Païsius or Païsios is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Saints
- Pishoy or Bishoy, 320-417 AD, an Egyptian desert father and Christian saint; Παΐσιος Paisios is the Greek form and Paisius the Latin form
- Saint Paisius of Uglich, Abbot (1504)
- Saint Paisius Velichkovsky, 17th century monk and theologian, the founder of modern Eastern Orthodox staretsdom
- Saint Paisius of Hilendar (Paisiy Hilendarski), an 18th-century Bulgarian National Revival figure
- Saint Paisios (Eznepidis), also known as Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, a 20th-century schema-monk
Hierarchs
