A baptismal name for a boy
Dorotheos
3 saints bore this name
Saints named Dorotheos
Saint Dorotheos ProiosJune 3Greek scholar and priest, born in 1765, who died at Constantinople in 1821.- Venerable DorotheosA monk of Dionysiou Monastery on Athos, reposed in 1898; Athonite elder venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Dorotheos of the Koutloumousiou SketeAn Athonite elder of St Panteleimon Skete (Koutloumousiou), who reposed in 1966; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
Questions
The name day of Dorotheos is June 3, the feast of Saint Dorotheos Proios.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 3 saints named Dorotheos, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Dorotheos is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Dorotheos Proios as patron.