A baptismal name for a boy
Cyprian
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Cyprian
Hieromartyr Cyprian of CarthageSeptember 13Bishop of Carthage and church writer, killed for his faith in 258.
Saint Cyprian of MoscowMay 27Prelate of Bulgarian origin, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus from 1376 until his death in 1406..jpg)
Hieromartyr Cyprian of AntiochOctober 2Born at Antioch to a pagan family, a former sorcerer who converted, became bishop and died a martyr in 304.
Venerable Cyprian of UstyugSeptember 29Legendary founder of the Archangel Michael Monastery in Veliky Ustyug, who died in 1276.- New Martyr Cyprian YatsenkoFebruary 7Peasant from the Poltava governorate who moved in 1900 to the Ufa governorate and died a martyr in 1935.
- Venerable Cyprian of StorozhevoAugust 26Russian monk venerated in the village of Nadkopanye in the Leningrad region.
Martyr Cyprian of SlepcheMartyr associated with Slepche Monastery in Macedonia, who lived in the eighteenth century.- Venerable Cyprian MankoSeptember 11Hieromonk born in 1811 in the Kharkiv region, who died in 1874; a local saint of the Ukrainian Church.
- Venerable Martyr Cyprian YankovskyMay 19Archimandrite born in Kharkiv in 1897, who died in 1938; a local saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- Fool-for-Christ Cyprian of SuzdalJuly 22Fool for Christ of Suzdal, who died in 1622; honored in the synaxes of the saints of Vladimir and Ivanovo.
- Martyr Cyprian AnnikovOctober 21A martyr of the Russian Church, who died in 1937.
- Martyr Cyprian of MesopolisMay 10Martyr of Mesopolis, who suffered for Christ.
Questions
The name day of Cyprian is September 13, the feast of Hieromartyr Cyprian of Carthage. It is also kept on May 27, October 2, September 29, February 7, August 26, September 11, May 19, July 22.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Cyprian, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Cyprian is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Hieromartyr Cyprian of Carthage as patron.