Paisius
# Paisius

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

* Patriarch Paisius I of Jerusalem, 17th century
* Patriarch Paisius of Alexandria, patriarch from 1657 to 1678
* Patriarch Paisius I of Constantinople
* Patriarch Paisius II of Constantinople, 18th century
* Serbian Patriarch Paisius I (1614-1647)
* Serbian Patriarch Paisius II (1758)
* Paisius Ligarides
* Paisius II of Caesarea, Metropolitan of Caesarea in Cappadocia from 1832 to 1871
