Paisius Velichkovsky


Paisius Velichkovsky
18th-century portrait of Paisius of Neamt.
Venerable
BornDecember 20, 1722
Poltava, Cossack Hetmanate (now Ukraine)
DiedNovember 15, 1794
Neamț Monastery
Venerated inEastern Orthodoxy
CanonizedJuly 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)
Feast15 November[1]
PatronageMonastics

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]

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  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ ""Our Spiritual Heritage", St. Symeon the New Theologian Orthodox Church". Archived from the original on 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2013-03-31.