A baptismal name for a boy
Paul
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Paul
Apostle PaulJune 29Former persecutor of Christians who became a missionary and wrote fourteen New Testament epistles._Liber_Chronicarum_(serietitel%2C_RP-P-2016-49-56-10).jpg)
Saint Paul I of RomeJune 28Bishop of Rome from 757 to 767, successor of his brother Stephen II.
Venerable Paul of ThebesJanuary 15Hermit of Egypt, regarded as the first desert hermit, who lived many years in the Thebaid.
Saint Paul the ConfessorNovember 6Sixth bishop of Constantinople, elected in 337, caught up in the Arian controversy; died around 350.
Saint Paul IV of ConstantinopleAugust 30Ecumenical Patriarch from 780 to 784, who urged the calling of an ecumenical council on the icon question..jpg)
Venerable Paul the SimpleOctober 4Egyptian hermit and disciple of Anthony the Great, held up as an example of spiritual simplicity.
Righteous Paul of TaganrogMarch 10Righteous Russian of Taganrog, born Pavel Stozhkov in 1792, who died in 1879.- Saint Paul III of ConstantinopleAugust 30Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 688 to 693, who died on 20 August 693.
Venerable Paul of ObnoraJanuary 10Disciple of Sergius of Radonezh, founder of the Pavlo-Obnorsk monastery, died in 1429.- Saint Paul of NarbonneMarch 22One of the apostles to the Gauls, sent probably by Pope Fabian around 250 to Christianize Gaul.
Saint Paul of TobolskJune 10Born in Sambir, Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Siberia, who died in Kyiv in 1770; honored in the Synaxis of Siberian Saints.
Venerable Paul the ObedientAugust 28Monk of the 13th-14th centuries, ascetic in the Far Caves of Kiev, honored for his obedience.
Questions
The name day of Paul is June 29, the feast of Apostle Paul. It is also kept on June 28, January 15, November 6, August 30, October 4, March 10, January 10, March 22.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Paul, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Paul is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Apostle Paul as patron.