A baptismal name for a boy
Dimitri
3 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Dimitri
Saint Dimitri KipianiApril 14Georgian statesman, publicist, writer and translator, leader of the liberal nobility; died in 1887.
Hieromartyr Dimitri KlepininJuly 20Russian priest in Paris who died at Buchenwald in 1944 for helping Jews escape deportation.- Venerable Dimitri the Christ-bearerOctober 5A disciple of Pheronia, venerable in Klarjeti; canonized in 2003 by the Church of Georgia.
Questions
The name day of Dimitri is April 14, the feast of Saint Dimitri Kipiani. It is also kept on July 20, October 5.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 3 saints named Dimitri, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Dimitri is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Dimitri Kipiani as patron.