A baptismal name for a boy
Spyridon
6 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Spyridon
Saint SpyridonDecember 12Shepherd of Cyprus who became bishop of Trimythous, wonderworker, present at the First Council of Nicaea.
Venerable Spyridon the Prosphora-bakerOctober 31Monk of the Kiev Caves in the 12th century who baked the prosphora for the Divine Liturgy.- Hieromartyr Spyridon YevtushenkoMay 19Deacon from the Kharkiv region who died in 1938; venerated as a local saint in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- Saint SpyridonFebruary 15A saint commemorated in the calendar of the Church of Greece.
- Saint SpyridonSeptember 28A saint named Spyridon, commemorated in the calendar of the Church of Greece.
- Venerable Spyridon of PutnaA monk of Putna Monastery at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries; named in the Romanian Paterikon, not formally canonized.
Questions
The name day of Spyridon is December 12, the feast of Saint Spyridon. It is also kept on October 31, May 19, February 15, September 28.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 6 saints named Spyridon, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Spyridon is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Spyridon as patron.