Vissarion (, ) οr Visarion ( sr-cyr, Висарион) is a Greek male name, which may refer to:

Given name

* Saint

Bessarion of Egypt Bessarion of Egypt, also known as Bessarion of Scetis or Bessarion the Great (4th century – 5th century) was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived around the 4th to 5th century in Egypt, wandering in the Nitrian Desert. As a Desert Father, he is ...

, also Bessarion the Great or Passarion, Egyptian anchorite, wonderworker and abbot, disciple of

Saint Anthony the Great Anthony the Great (; ; ; ; – 17 January 356) was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from Saint Anthony (disambiguation), other saints named Anthony, such as , by various epithets: , , , , , a ...

Basilios Bessarion Bessarion (; 2 January 1403 – 18 November 1472) was a Byzantine Greeks, Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic Church, Catholic Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed ...

(1403–1472), Greek scholar, Catholic cardinal and Latin patriarch of Constantinople *

Visarion, Metropolitan of Herzegovina Visarion ( sr-cyr, Висарион) was the Metropolitan of Herzegovina between 1590 and 1602. He was the ''ktitor'' of the Great Church of the Tvrdoš Monastery in Trebinje, where he was seated. Life Rebel activity The Banat Uprising (1594) ...

(s. 1590–1602) * Visarion Saraj (1714–1744), Serbian Orthodox hieromonk and new martyr *

Vissarion Belinsky Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (; Pre-reform spelling: Виссаріонъ Григорьевичъ Бѣлинскій. – ) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. Belinsky played one of the key roles in the career of p ...

(1811–1848), Russian literary critic *

Visarion Ljubiša Visarion Ljubiša (; 28 February 1823 – 14 April 1884) was the Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Montenegro from 1882 to 1884. Early life and schooling Stefan Ljubiša was born in the village of Sveti Stefan to t ...

(1823–1884), Metropolitan of Montenegro (s. 1882–84) * Vissarion Dzhugashvili (1849–1909), father of

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...

Visarion Puiu Visarion Puiu (; sometimes Bessarion in French; born Victor Puiu on 27 February 1879 in Pașcani, Romania – 10 August 1964 in Paris or Viels-Maisons, France) was a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church. During World War II, ...

(1879–1964), born as Victor Puiu, Romanian metropolitan bishop *

Visarion Xhuvani Metropolitan Visarion Xhuvani (14 December 1890 – 15 December 1965) was the primate of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania from 1929 to 1937. He was a main contributor to the autocephaly, and a close collaborator of Fan Noli. Life Vis ...

(1890–1965), Primate of the Orthodox Church of Albania (s. 1929–37) *

Vissarion Lominadze Vissarion Vissarionovich "Beso" Lominadze ( ka, ბესარიონ ლომინაძე, tr; ; – 19 January 1935), was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician. The head of the Transcaucasian Oblast organization of the All-Ru ...

(1897–1935), Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician *

Vissarion Shebalin Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin (; 29 May 1963) was a USSR, Soviet composer, music pedagogue. Rector of the Moscow Conservatory (1942-1948). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1947). Biography Shebalin was born in Omsk, where his parents were school t ...

(1902–1963), Soviet Russian composer * Vissarion Korkoliacos (1908–1991), Greek Orthodox monk *

Vissarion Sergei Anatolyevitch Torop (, ''Sergej Anatolʹevič Torop''; born 14 January 1961), known as Vissarion ( rus, Виссарио́н, p=vʲɪsərʲɪˈon, "He who gives new life" or "life-giving"), is a Russian spiritual teacher and founder of t ...

(born 1961 as Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop), Russian mystic

Surname

I. C. Vissarion Iancu Constantin Vissarion (born Iancu Visarion, also credited as Ion Vissarion; 2 February 1879 – 5 November 1951) was a Romanian prose writer, poet, and political agitator, also known as an inventor, esotericist, and promoter of pseudoscien ...

(1879–1951), Romanian writer {{given name Greek masculine given names Masculine given names