A baptismal name for a boy
Ambrose
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Ambrose
Saint Ambrose of MilanDecember 7Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, great preacher who baptized Augustine of Hippo.
Venerable Ambrose of OptinaOctober 10Elder and hieroschemamonk at Optina, born Alexander Grenkov, who died in 1891; canonized in 1988..jpg)
Hieromartyr Ambrose of SarapulJuly 27Bishop of Sarapul and Yelabuga, born Vasily Gudko, who died a martyr in 1918; canonized in 2000.
Saint Ambrose of GeorgiaMarch 16Scholar and Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia from 1921 to 1927, known for his opposition to the Soviet regime.- Saint Ambrose of AlexandriaMarch 17Christian theologian and friend of Origen, who died around 250.
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Saint Ambrose PolyanskyOctober 14Bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi, born in 1878, who died in exile in Kazakhstan in 1932; glorified in 2000..jpg)
Venerable Martyr Ambrose AstakhovOctober 8Archimandrite born into a peasant family in Tambov province, shot at the Butovo firing range in 1937.- Venerable AmbroseNovember 7A monastic saint of Thessaloniki, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Saint AmbroseOctober 16A hierarch remembered in Western calendars, died around 752; few details survive.
- Venerable Ambrose of EsphigmenouAn Athonite elder of Esphigmenou Monastery, who reposed in 1987; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Ambrose of the Great LavraAn Athonite elder of the Great Lavra, who reposed in 1977; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Saint Ambrose of CahorsOctober 16A saint honored at Cahors in France from the age of the undivided Church.
Questions
The name day of Ambrose is December 7, the feast of Saint Ambrose of Milan. It is also kept on October 10, July 27, March 16, March 17, October 14, October 8, November 7, October 16.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Ambrose, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Ambrose is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Ambrose of Milan as patron.