A baptismal name for a boy
Dimitry
5 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Dimitry
Hieromartyr Dimitry BenevolenskyNovember 14Archpriest from Vyshny Volochyok, a priest from 1911, who died a martyr in 1937 under Soviet rule; canonized in 1999.
Right-Believing Dimitry of UglichMay 23Younger son of Prince Andrei of Uglich, honored as a right-believing prince among the saints of Vologda; died about 1544.- Confessor Dimitry SokolovArchpriest of Uglich and confessor in the Soviet persecution; he died in 1943.
- Venerable Dimitry (Egoroff)An ascetic of the Kazan Skete in Santa Rosa, California, who reposed in 1991; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Hieromartyr Dimitry Surmeli of OleksandriiaAugust 22A hieromartyr of the Protection church in Oleksandriia, killed in 1937; locally glorified in 2013.
Questions
The name day of Dimitry is November 14, the feast of Hieromartyr Dimitry Benevolensky. It is also kept on May 23, August 22.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 5 saints named Dimitry, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Dimitry is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Hieromartyr Dimitry Benevolensky as patron.