Ambrose of Optina
Ambrose of Optina (Russian: Амвросий Оптинский; birth name: Aleksander Mikhaylovich Grenkov, Russian: Александр Михайлович Гренков, December 5, 1812, Bolshaya Lipovitsa settlement, Tambov guberniya – October 23, 1891) was a starets and a hieroschemamonk in Optina Monastery, canonized in the 1988 convention of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Saint Ambrose of Optina | |
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Icon of St. Ambrose of Optina | |
| Venerable Father | |
| Born | 5 December 1812 Bolshaya Lipovitsa settlement, Tambov, Russia |
| Died | 23 October 1891 Shamordino |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | 6 June 1988 and 13 May 1990, Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and Montreal, Quebec by 1988 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, (Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow) and Russian Orthodox Church Abroad |
| Feast | 23 October [O.S. 10 October] (Repose) 10 July [O.S. 27 June] (Uncovering of Relics) |
| Attributes | Clothed as a monk, sometimes holding a scroll |
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