A baptismal name for a boy
Neophytus
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Neophytus
Saint Neophytus of UrbnisiOctober 28Of Persian birth, born Omar, a commander under an emir, who became a Christian and bishop of Urbnisi; died in 642.._%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3.jpg)
Venerable Martyr Neophytus OsipovOctober 21Archimandrite born at Augustow in 1875, who died a martyr in a Siblag camp in 1937; canonized in 2009.
Hieromartyr Neophytus LyubimovOctober 17Archpriest of the Church of St Spyridon in Moscow, who died in 1918; added to the New Martyrs in 2000.- Martyr Neophytus of NicaeaMartyr of Nicaea who died around 290.
- Martyr NeophytusMay 5
- Saint NeophytusAugust 11A saint named Neophytus, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Martyr NeophytusDecember 7A saint commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Saint Neophytus of CreteJune 16Metropolitan of Wallachia of Cretan origin, in the eighteenth century.
- Venerable Neophytus of Stânișoara MonasterySeptember 3Romanian venerable monk of Stânișoara Monastery.
- Saint Neophytus of DochiariouNovember 9Venerable Athonite monk of Docheiariou.
- Venerable Neophytus of MachairasDecember 13One of the founders of Machairas Monastery in Cyprus, commemorated in the Cypriot calendar.
- Hieromartyr Neophytus the SinaiteDecember 20A hieromonk of Mount Sinai who died a martyr; commemorated on 20 December in the Orthodox Synaxarion.
Questions
The name day of Neophytus is October 28, the feast of Saint Neophytus of Urbnisi. It is also kept on October 21, October 17, May 5, August 11, December 7, June 16, September 3, November 9.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Neophytus, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Neophytus is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Neophytus of Urbnisi as patron.