A baptismal name for a boy
Dometios
4 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Dometios
- Venerable Dometios the MercifulJuly 6Archimandrite born in 1924 at Bălănești, who died in 1975 at Râmeț; canonized by the Holy Synod in July 2024.
- Venerable DometiosAugust 28A monk of St Paul's Monastery on Athos, commemorated on 28 August among the saints of the monastery.
- Venerable Dometios TriheneaA Romanian monk born at Tilișca in 1909, who lived in the cell of St Hypatios and reposed in 1985; venerated, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Dometios the TypikarisA monk and typikaris of Dionysiou Monastery on Athos, reposed in 1920; Athonite elder venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
Questions
The name day of Dometios is July 6, the feast of Venerable Dometios the Merciful. It is also kept on August 28.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 4 saints named Dometios, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Dometios is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Venerable Dometios the Merciful as patron.