A baptismal name for a boy
Charalampus
4 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Charalampus
Hieromartyr CharalampusFebruary 10Priest of Magnesia on the Maeander in Asia Minor, who died a martyr around 202.- Saint CharalampusSeptember 17A saint commemorated in the calendar of the Church of Greece.
- Venerable Charalampus the AthoniteA monastic saint of the Holy Mountain, commemorated in the calendar of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
- Hieromartyr Charalampus FinkovskyMay 13A priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, killed for the faith in 1938.
Questions
The name day of Charalampus is February 10, the feast of Hieromartyr Charalampus. It is also kept on September 17, May 13.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 4 saints named Charalampus, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Charalampus is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Hieromartyr Charalampus as patron.