A baptismal name for a boy
Konstantin
8 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Konstantin
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Hieromartyr Konstantin DyakovMay 19Metropolitan of Kyiv and Exarch of Ukraine from 1934, who died a martyr in Kyiv in 1937..jpg)
Right-Believing Konstantin UlemetsSeptember 19Son of Fyodor Rostislavich, nicknamed the scholar, devoted to learning, who died unmarried not later than 1321.
Hieromartyr Konstantin BogoyavlenskyJuly 14Priest shot at Merkushino in July 1918, canonized as a hieromartyr in 2002.
Martyr Konstantin MinyatovJune 16Russian lawyer born in Oryol, who died in Yekaterinburg on 29 June 1918; canonized by the Russian Church in 2000.- Hieromartyr Konstantin ZhdanovApril 16Belarusian priest, a victim of the Bolshevik terror at Dzisna in 1919; canonized in 2011 by the Belarusian Church.
- Venerable Konstantin SemernikovA hieroschemamonk in the Russian kellia, reposed in 1913; Athonite elder venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Martyr Konstantin (Vučurović)June 13A venerable martyr of the Žitomislić brotherhood who gave his life for Christ in 1941.
- Venerable Martyr Konstantin of TverAn archimandrite of Tver, killed in 1609; glorified locally.
Questions
The name day of Konstantin is May 19, the feast of Hieromartyr Konstantin Dyakov. It is also kept on September 19, July 14, June 16, April 16, June 13.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 8 saints named Konstantin, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Konstantin is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Hieromartyr Konstantin Dyakov as patron.