A baptismal name for a girl
Theodora
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Theodora
Right-Believing TheodoraNovember 14Wife of Emperor Justinian and empress from 527 to 548, one of her husband's chief advisers..jpg)
Right-Believing TheodoraFebruary 11Wife of Emperor Theophilos who, as regent, restored the veneration of holy icons in 843..jpg)
Venerable Theodora of AlexandriaSeptember 11Woman of Alexandria in the time of Emperor Zeno who lived as a monk in the Thebaid in the fifth century.
Right-Believing Theodora of ArtaMarch 11Consort of the ruler of Epirus, venerated as a saint in the Orthodox Church, who lived in the thirteenth century.
Venerable Theodora of ThessalonicaApril 5Byzantine nun from Aegina, whose Life is the longest ever written about a Byzantine holy woman; commemorated on 29 August.- Saint Theodora of WallachiaOctober 28Daughter of Basarab I, tsaritsa of Bulgaria as wife of Ivan Alexander, who divorced her in 1345.
Venerable Theodora of SihlaAugust 7Ascetic of the Neamț Mountains at Sihla in the seventeenth century, commemorated on 7 August.
Martyr Theodora of RomeSister of Saint Hermes, whom she aided in prison; she was martyred after him, around the year 120.- Venerable Theodora of CaesareiaDecember 30Byzantine nun of the 8th century, from Cappadocia.
Venerable Theodora of Nizhny NovgorodApril 16Abbess of the Conception Monastery in Nizhny Novgorod, born Vassa in 1331 and died in 1378.- Venerable Theodora of ConstantinopleDecember 30Pious Byzantine elder who served Basil the New, known from his Life for her vision of the toll-houses of the air.
- Martyr Theodora of CappadociaMarch 20
Questions
The name day of Theodora is November 14, the feast of Right-Believing Theodora. It is also kept on February 11, September 11, March 11, April 5, October 28, August 7, December 30, April 16.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Theodora, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Theodora is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Right-Believing Theodora as patron.