A baptismal name for a boy
Euthymius
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Euthymius
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Venerable Euthymius the GreatJanuary 20Abbot in Palestine, founder of several monasteries in the Judean desert, who died in 473.
Saint Euthymius of TarnovoJanuary 20Patriarch of Bulgaria from 1375 to 1393, scholar and writer, a great figure of medieval Bulgaria.
Venerable Euthymius the AthoniteMay 13Georgian monk, philosopher and scholar, venerated as a saint, who died in 1024.
Saint Euthymius I of ConstantinopleAugust 5A monk from youth, spiritual father of Leo VI the Wise, and Ecumenical Patriarch from 907 to 912.
Hieromartyr Euthymius of SardisDecember 26Metropolitan of Sardis and leading defender of icons during iconoclasm, who died a martyr in 831.
Venerable Euthymius of SuzdalApril 1Russian archimandrite, founder of the Saviour and Saint Euthymius monastery at Suzdal, died in 1404.
Saint Euthymius II of NovgorodMarch 11Archbishop of Novgorod from 1429 to 1458, a great patron of the arts and architecture.
Confessor Euthymius the Confessor of GeorgiaJanuary 19Georgian ascetic monk and scholar, 1865 to 1944, who died at Zedazeni; canonized in 2003.
Venerable Euthymius of the Kiev CavesJanuary 20Schemamonk in the Far Caves of the Kiev Lavra; no details of his life are known.- Venerable Euthymius the YoungerOctober 15Monk of Thessalonica, born around 824 near Ancyra and died in 898, called the Younger.
- Saint Euthymius ShervashidzeApril 21Georgian Metropolitan of Gelati from 1776 to 1820, who died in 1822 at the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery.
- Venerable Martyr Euthymius LyubovichevJuly 6Hieromonk of Optina, born into a well-off family, who died a martyr in Bryansk in 1931; canonized in 2005.
Questions
The name day of Euthymius is January 20, the feast of Venerable Euthymius the Great. It is also kept on May 13, August 5, December 26, April 1, March 11, January 19, October 15, April 21.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Euthymius, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Euthymius is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Venerable Euthymius the Great as patron.