Definition of Staret. Meaning of Staret. Synonyms of Staret

- A starets (Russian: стáрец; fem. ста́рица) is an elder of an Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic monastery or convent who functions as venerated adviser...
- Tadej (Thaddeus) of Vitovnica (10 October 1914 – 13 April 2003) was a Serbian Orthodox elder and published author, credited for proposing the idea that...
- 1897 transformed him. There, he met and was "profoundly humbled" by a starets (elder) known as Makary. Rasputin may have spent several months at Verkhoturye...
- dedication. In the Slavic tradition, the title of Elder (Church Slavonic: Starets) is normally reserved for those who are of an advanced spiritual life,...
- Orthodoxy was reflected in Russian literature, an example is the figure of Starets Zosima in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov. In the Russian Orthodox...
- increasingly turned to mystics and holy men (or starets as they were called in Russian). One of these starets, an illiterate Siberian named Grigori Rasputin...
- romanized: Pravednyy Feodor Kuzmich Tomskiy, Sibirskiy, starets) was a Russian Orthodox starets. He was canonized as a righteous saint by the Russian Orthodox...
- truth of the accusation Nicholas' wife relied on Rasputin (a Siberian starets.) The authority of the tsar, who now stood as a moral weakling, sank further...
- between him and herself. Father Zosima is an Elder and spiritual advisor (starets) in the town monastery and Alyosha's teacher. He is something of a celebrity...
- Bulgaria. Following the Byzantine theory of "Imperium sine Patriarcha non staret", which said that a close relation should exist between an Empire and Patriarchate...