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
• Serbian Patriarch Paisius I (1614-1647)
• 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 II (1758)
• Paisius Ligarides
• Paisius II of Caesarea, Metropolitan of Caesarea in Cappadocia from 1832 to 1871