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starets

elder in an Orthodox Christian monastery
Class type of: elder Q761741

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
Eastern Orthodox religious occupation, function[2]
Subclass of
elder[3]
Described by source
Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[4][5][6][7]
Different from
Starzec[10]
Native label
стáрец, старец[8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en starets cs Starec de Starez es Starets es Stárets fr Staretz he סטארץ ja 長老 pl Starzec mnich ro stareț ru Стáрец ru Старчество uk Старець
🔖 Identifiers · 11
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/starets
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
starets
Freebase ID
/m/07lmtg
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
starets
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0143780
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4163654
Interlingual Index ID
i93284
Krugosvet article (archived)
kultura_i_obrazovanie/religiya/STARCHESTVO.html
Orthodox Encyclopedia ID
2896991
Topic's main category
Category:Starets
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
10668486-n

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
Subclass of 1
elder
← Occupation 1
Moses of Optina
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Summary

starets is an Eastern Orthodox religious occupation[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · Obscuraa · 2026-10-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → Eastern Orthodox religious occupation, function
    Wikipedia languages → ['bar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'nl',
    Orthodox Encyclopedia ID → 2896991
    Subclass of → —
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