A baptismal name for a boy
Meletius
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Meletius
Saint Meletius of AntiochFebruary 12Patriarch of Antioch from 360 until 381, who died in Constantinople during the Second Ecumenical Council.
Saint Meletius of KharkivFebruary 12Archbishop of Kharkiv and Akhtyrka, who lived from 1784 to 1840.
Saint Meletius YakimovJune 10Bishop of Ryazan and Zaraysk and spiritual writer, locally canonized, who died in 1900.- Venerable Meletius of GalesiosJanuary 19A Byzantine monk born in 1230 and died in 1307, who lived as an ascetic on Mount Galesios.
- Saint MeletiusDecember 4Bishop of Sebastopolis in Pontus in the 4th century, a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated in the Roman Martyrology.
- Venerable Martyr Meletius FedyunevSeptember 10A monastic martyr of the Russian Church, who died in 1937.
- Martyr Meletius of GalatiaMay 24A Roman military commander, who died a martyr in Galatia for the Christian faith.
- Venerable Martyr Meletius GolokolosovSeptember 3A monastic martyr of the Russian Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Saint Meletius of CyprusSeptember 21A hierarch of Cyprus, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Venerable Meletius the NewSeptember 1A venerable father known as Meletius the New, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Saint Meletius PegasOctober 13Patriarch of Alexandria, theologian and defender of Orthodoxy, who died in 1601.
- Venerable Meletius of Stânișoara MonasterySeptember 3Romanian venerable monk of Stânișoara Monastery.
Questions
The name day of Meletius is February 12, the feast of Saint Meletius of Antioch. It is also kept on June 10, January 19, December 4, September 10, May 24, September 3, September 21, September 1.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Meletius, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Meletius is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Meletius of Antioch as patron.