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Ambrose of Optina

Russian Orthodox elder, monk, and saint

Died when: 78 years 322 days (946 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Ambrose of Optina

Saint Ambrose of Optina (Russian: ???????? ?????????; birth name: Aleksander Mikhaylovich Grenkov, Russian: ????????? ?????????? ???????, 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.

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