A baptismal name for a boy
Gennady
8 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Gennady
Saint Gennady of NovgorodDecember 4Archbishop of Novgorod from 1484 to 1504, fighter against the Judaizers, who compiled the first complete Slavic Bible..jpeg)
Venerable Gennady of KostromaJanuary 23Monk born at Mogilev, founder of the Saviour and Gennady monastery, who died in 1565.
Venerable Gennady of VazheozeroFebruary 9According to tradition a disciple of Saint Alexander of Svir, he lived as a hermit at Lake Vazhe until his death in 1516..jpg)
Venerable Martyr Gennady RebezaFebruary 25Abbot of Bizyukov Monastery in the Kherson diocese, confessor of Metropolitan Anatoly of Odesa; died a martyr in 1937.- Venerable Martyr Gennady LetyukDecember 5A monastic martyr of the Russian Church, commemorated in the Russian Orthodox calendar.
- Hieromartyr Gennady ZdorovtsevJuly 5A hieromartyr of the Russian Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Venerable Gennady of RossikonA schemamonk of Rossikon; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Martyr Gennady ParfentyevOctober 28A monk who suffered martyrdom in 1919; glorified among the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.
Questions
The name day of Gennady is December 4, the feast of Saint Gennady of Novgorod. It is also kept on January 23, February 9, February 25, December 5, July 5, October 28.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 8 saints named Gennady, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Gennady is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Gennady of Novgorod as patron.