A baptismal name for a boy
Nikephoros
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Nikephoros
Saint Nikephoros the ConfessorJune 2Patriarch of Constantinople from 806 to 815, writer and defender of the holy icons, exiled by the iconoclasts.- Venerable Nikephoros of VazheozeroFebruary 9Disciple of Alexander of Svir, he withdrew in 1508 to Lake Vazhe, where he founded a hermitage.
Venerable Nikephoros of ChiosMay 1Spiritual disciple of Saint Macarius of Corinth, regarded as a saint already during his lifetime.- Venerable Nikephoros of BorovskFebruary 9Hegumen, disciple of Sergius of Radonezh and founder of the Vysoko-Pokrovsky Monastery in Borovsk.
- Venerable Nikephoros of KalugaMay 2Hegumen, founder of the Dormition Hermitage of St Tikhon near Kaluga.
- Venerable Nikephoros the SolitaryMay 4Athonite monk and spiritual writer of the thirteenth century, author of a treatise on watchfulness in the Philokalia.
- Venerable Nikephoros the LeperDecember 22A monk who bore the illness of leprosy with patience, born in 1890 and reposed in 1964.
- Hieromartyr Nikephoros Paraschis-KantakouzenosGreek scholar educated at Padua, exarch in Moldavia and Poland, who died in 1599 in the prison at Malbork.
- Venerable Nikephoros AlfanovMay 4Venerable monk of Novgorod, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Venerable Nikephoros of HarsiaOctober 23Venerable monk of Constantinople, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Right-Believing Nikephoros II PhokasDecember 11Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969, patron of the founding of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos.
- Venerable Martyr Nikephoros YugovMonk martyred for the faith of Christ in 1918, during the Soviet persecution.
Questions
The name day of Nikephoros is June 2, the feast of Saint Nikephoros the Confessor. It is also kept on February 9, May 1, May 2, May 4, December 22, October 23, December 11.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Nikephoros, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Nikephoros is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Nikephoros the Confessor as patron.