Constantine

Other days it is celebrated

Saints named Constantine

• Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine the GreatMay 21First Christian Roman emperor, who granted the Church freedom and convened the First Ecumenical Council.
• Martyr Constantine BrancoveanuAugust 16Prince of Wallachia from 1688 to 1714, builder of churches, martyred by the Ottomans in Constantinople.
• Saint Constantine I of ConstantinopleJuly 29Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 675 to 677, successor of John V.
• CISaint Constantine III of ConstantinopleJuly 29Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1059 until his death in 1063, a fellow student of Michael Psellos.
• Saint Constantine I of KievJune 5Metropolitan of Kiev from 1155 to 1159, a Greek by birth.
• Right-Believing Constantine of MuromMay 21Prince of Murom, a descendant of Vladimir I of Kiev and son of Prince Svyatoslav of Chernigov; died in 1129.
• Hieromartyr Constantine GolubevSeptember 19Archpriest of the Epiphany Cathedral at Bogorodsk, born in 1852, who died a martyr in the autumn of 1918.
• Venerable Constantine of KosinoJuly 29Abbot of Kosino Monastery near Staraya Russa, who came from Khutyn Monastery in the late twelfth century.
• Hieromartyr Constantine VeretskyJanuary 25Archpriest from Yekaterinoslav province, killed at Rostov-on-Don in 1918; glorified as a saint in 2018.
• Hieromartyr Constantine LyubomudrovNovember 6Priest born in 1879 into a psalm-reader's family of eight children, shot at the Butovo firing range in 1937.
• Right-Believing Constantine of StrathclydeMarch 11Son and successor of King Riderch Hael of Strathclyde, mentioned only in the Life of St Kentigern.
• Right-Believing Constantine VsevolodovichJuly 3Third Prince of Yaroslavl, the younger son of Vsevolod Konstantinovich, known from the Life of Constantine and Vasily.

Questions

I.When is the name day of Constantine?

The name day of Constantine is May 21, the feast of Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine the Great. It is also kept on August 16, July 29, June 5, September 19, January 25, November 6, March 11, July 3.

II.Which saints bore the name Constantine?

The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Constantine, with their lives and icons.

III.Is Constantine a good baptismal name?

Yes. Constantine is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine the Great as patron.