A baptismal name for a boy
Arsenius
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Arsenius
Venerable Arsenius the GreatMay 8Tutor of the emperor's sons who became a hermit in Egypt, one of the most revered Desert Fathers.- Saint Arsenius AutorianusOctober 28Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in the 13th century, died in 1273 on Marmara Island.
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Venerable Arsenius of IqaltoFebruary 6A Georgian churchman, theologian and calligrapher of the 11th century, prominent in the life of the Georgian Church.
Hieromartyr Arsenius MatsievichMay 23Metropolitan of Rostov and Yaroslavl who died at Reval in 1772 after opposing the seizure of church property.
Saint Arsenius of ElassonaApril 13Greek born in Thessaly, archbishop of Suzdal and Tarusa, who died at Suzdal in 1625.
Venerable Arsenius of KonevetsJune 12Monk from Novgorod, founder of the Konevets monastery and wonderworker; died in 1447..jpg)
Saint Arsenius of TverMarch 2Bishop of Tver and author of the oldest redaction of the Kyiv Caves Paterikon, who died in 1409.
Venerable Arsenius of KomelAugust 24Born at Moscow into a noble family, founder of a monastery at Komel and a wonderworker; died in 1550..jpg)
Venerable Arsenius of SviatohirskAugust 24Archimandrite and abbot at Sviatohirsk, born at Livny in 1805 and died in 1859; a local saint since 2008.
Venerable Arsenius the Hard-workerMay 8Monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra who lived in the late thirteenth and the fourteenth century.- Saint Arsenius of CorfuJanuary 19Archbishop of Corfu, one of the patrons of the island with Saint Spyridon; died about 959.
Hieromartyr Arsenius TroitskyNovember 6Russian archpriest executed at the Butovo firing range on 17 November 1937; canonized in 2001.
Questions
The name day of Arsenius is May 8, the feast of Venerable Arsenius the Great. It is also kept on October 28, February 6, May 23, April 13, June 12, March 2, August 24, January 19.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Arsenius, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Arsenius is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Venerable Arsenius the Great as patron.