Ignatius

Other days it is celebrated

Saints named Ignatius

• Hieromartyr Ignatius of AntiochDecember 20Bishop of Antioch and disciple of the apostles, taken to Rome and thrown to wild beasts around 108.
• Saint Ignatius of ConstantinopleOctober 23Patriarch of Constantinople from 847 to 858 and from 867 to 877, in the time of the dispute with Photios.
• Saint Ignatius BrianchaninovApril 30Russian bishop and theologian, spiritual writer, retired to Babaevsky Monastery, who died in 1867.
• Saint Ignatius of MariupolFebruary 3Greek bishop of Gothia and Kaffa in Crimea and later of Mariupol in present-day Ukraine; died in 1786.
• Venerable Ignatius of VologdaMay 19Son of Prince Andrei of Uglich, brother of Ivan III, a monk at Vologda; died in 1523 or 1525.
• Saint Ignatius of RostovMay 28Bishop of Rostov in the thirteenth century, a wonderworker, who died in 1288.
• Venerable Ignatius of the Kiev CavesAugust 28Archimandrite of the Kiev Caves Monastery in the fifteenth century, who died before 1438.
• Venerable Martyr Ignatius LebedevAugust 30Schema-archimandrite born at Chukhloma in 1884, who died a martyr in a labor colony near Alatyr in 1938.
• Hieromartyr Ignatius SadkovskyApril 24Bishop of Skopin and vicar of the Ryazan diocese, who died a martyr in a camp near Arkhangelsk in 1938.
• New Martyr Ignatius of Stara ZagoraOctober 8A Bulgarian new martyr who suffered for the Orthodox faith under Ottoman rule.
• ILVenerable Ignatius of LomMay 23Russian monk who died in 1591 at the Lom Hermitage in the Yaroslavl region.
• IMMartyr Ignatius MarkovDecember 20Russian peasant from the Vladimir region, born in 1876 and shot in 1931.

Questions

I.When is the name day of Ignatius?

The name day of Ignatius is December 20, the feast of Hieromartyr Ignatius of Antioch. It is also kept on October 23, April 30, February 3, May 19, May 28, August 28, August 30, April 24.

II.Which saints bore the name Ignatius?

The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Ignatius, with their lives and icons.

III.Is Ignatius a good baptismal name?

Yes. Ignatius is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Hieromartyr Ignatius of Antioch as patron.