A baptismal name for a boy
Nektarios
6 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Nektarios
Saint Nektarios of AeginaNovember 9Metropolitan of Pentapolis, wonderworker of the island of Aegina, canonized in 1961.- Venerable Martyr Nektarios of AthosJuly 11A new monk-martyr of Mount Athos, born in 1799 and died in 1820.
- Venerable Nektarios of St Anne's SketeAn Athonite elder of St Anne Skete, who reposed in 1982; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Nektarios the Spiritual FatherAn Athonite confessor of Kavsokalyvia (Great Lavra), who reposed in 1989; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Martyr Nektarios the AgiannaniteAn iconographer of St Anne Skete, killed at Smyrna in 1922 after urging the condemned clergy to confess; venerated, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Nektarios MarmarinosAn elder of the Monastery of St Patapios in Loutraki, who reposed in 2019; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
Questions
The name day of Nektarios is November 9, the feast of Saint Nektarios of Aegina. It is also kept on July 11.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 6 saints named Nektarios, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Nektarios is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Nektarios of Aegina as patron.