Male name
When is Paisios’ name day?
Παΐσιος · Paisios
Main name day
Saint Paisius the Great
The Greek name Παΐσιος (Paisios) is celebrated on 19 June.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saint Paisius the Great4th–5th centuryAscetic of the Egyptian desert and disciple of Abba Pambo, around whom many monks gathered in Scetis.Paisius was born in Egypt in the early 4th century, the youngest of seven children of a wealthy and pious family, and was orphaned of his father while still young. As a young man he went into the desert and became a disciple of Abba Pambo, renowned for his virtue.Read more
- Saint Paisios of Mount Athos20th centuryAthonite monk (1924–1994) from Pharasa in Cappadocia, who was recognised as a saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2015.Paisios, born Arsenios Eznepides, was born in 1924 in Pharasa, Cappadocia, shortly before its Greek inhabitants relocated to Greece; he was baptized by Saint Arsenios of Cappadocia, who gave him his own name. His family settled in Konitsa, where he learned carpentry and later served as a radio operator in the army.Read more
Variants and other forms
- Other Greek forms and diminutives
- Παΐσης
- In Latin letters
- Paisios
- English equivalents
- Paisius
- In Greek
- Παΐσιος